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From: Andrew Morton <akpm@digeo.com>
To: vda@port.imtp.ilyichevsk.odessa.ua
Cc: Rick Lindsley <ricklind@us.ibm.com>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC][PATCH] sard changes for 2.5.34
Date: Thu, 12 Sep 2002 11:49:25 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3D80E1B5.7B3B8AA0@digeo.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 200209121837.g8CIbIp06737@Port.imtp.ilyichevsk.odessa.ua

Denis Vlasenko wrote:
> 
> On 12 September 2002 05:20, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > > Lastly, a bit of a philosophical question.  /proc/stat and (with this
> > > patch) /proc/diskstats provide some of the same information. Should
> > >
> > >     a) all of it appear in /proc/stat?
> > >
> > >     b) all of it appear in /proc/diskstats?
> > >
> > >     c) keep the current (limited) info in /proc/stat (for backward
> > >        compatibility) and introduce the expanded info in
> > >        /proc/diskstats?
> > >
> > > My preference is b, but I'm open to other opinions.
> >
> > b).  Let's get the kernel right and change userspace to follow.  We have
> > another accounting patch which breaks top(1), so Rik has fixed it (and
> > is feeding the fixes upstream).
> 
> Erm... Some of /proc/stat data has no relations to disks, namely CPU counts.
> It would be strange to have CPU stats in /proc/diskstats...

Rick is proposing that all the disk stuff be in /proc/diskstat and
that all the process stuff be in /proc/stat.  ie: move all the disk
accounting out of /proc/stat.

  reply	other threads:[~2002-09-12 18:44 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-09-12  2:10 [RFC][PATCH] sard changes for 2.5.34 Rick Lindsley
2002-09-12  2:42 ` Andrew Morton
2002-09-12  2:50   ` Rik van Riel
2002-09-12  6:40   ` Rick Lindsley
2002-09-12  7:20     ` Andrew Morton
2002-09-12  9:18       ` Rick Lindsley
2002-09-12 10:01         ` Alexander Viro
2002-09-12 10:33           ` Rick Lindsley
2002-09-12 19:42         ` Andrew Morton
2002-09-12 20:38           ` Rik van Riel
2002-09-12 16:16       ` Rik van Riel
2002-09-12 16:48         ` Andrew Morton
2002-09-12 23:32       ` Denis Vlasenko
2002-09-12 18:49         ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2002-09-12 19:50           ` Rick Lindsley
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2002-09-13 11:39 Dipankar Sarma
2002-09-14 18:57 Lev Makhlis
2002-09-18 17:54 ` Randy.Dunlap
2002-09-18 19:43   ` Lev Makhlis

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