From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from d01relay04.pok.ibm.com (d01relay04.pok.ibm.com [9.56.227.236]) by e2.ny.us.ibm.com (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id lB4KSJv9030175 for ; Tue, 4 Dec 2007 15:28:19 -0500 Received: from d01av04.pok.ibm.com (d01av04.pok.ibm.com [9.56.224.64]) by d01relay04.pok.ibm.com (8.13.8/8.13.8/NCO v8.7) with ESMTP id lB4KSJQ3130986 for ; Tue, 4 Dec 2007 15:28:19 -0500 Received: from d01av04.pok.ibm.com (loopback [127.0.0.1]) by d01av04.pok.ibm.com (8.12.11.20060308/8.13.3) with ESMTP id lB4KSJOT008521 for ; Tue, 4 Dec 2007 15:28:19 -0500 Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH] LTTng instrumentation mm (updated) From: Dave Hansen In-Reply-To: <20071204200558.GB1988@Krystal> References: <20071129023421.GA711@Krystal> <1196317552.18851.47.camel@localhost> <20071130161155.GA29634@Krystal> <1196444801.18851.127.camel@localhost> <20071130170516.GA31586@Krystal> <1196448122.19681.16.camel@localhost> <20071130191006.GB3955@Krystal> <20071204192537.GC31752@Krystal> <1196797259.6073.17.camel@localhost> <20071204200558.GB1988@Krystal> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Tue, 04 Dec 2007 12:28:16 -0800 Message-Id: <1196800096.6073.25.camel@localhost> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: Mathieu Desnoyers Cc: "Frank Ch. Eigler" , akpm@linux-foundation.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org, mbligh@google.com List-ID: Or, think out of the box... Maybe you can introduce some interfaces that expose information both in sysfs (in normal human-readable formats) and in a way that lets you get the same data out in some binary format. Seems to me you'll have a lot easier time justifying all of these lines of code spread all over the kernel if there are a few more users off the bat. -- Dave -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@kvack.org. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: email@kvack.org