Re: [Lse-tech] [patch] Scalable statistics counters with /proc reporting

[Ravikiran G Thirumalai <kiran@in.ibm.com>]

On Wed, Aug 07, 2002 at 12:02:14PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> > 
> > ...
> > Also the /proc-based implementation is really ugly.  It should be moved
> > over to the seq_file interface at least, a simple ramfs-style own
> > filesystem ("stats" filesystem type) would be the cleanest solution.
> 
> I'd suggest that it be just a single stat counter per /proc
> file.  A simple sprintf is fine for that.
> 
> If it's necessary to write a new filesystem to just export a bunch
> of integers to userspace then something is seriously wrong.

Yes, that was how my previous release worked.  But Rik wanted to be able 
to group a bunch of counters into a single /proc file for his use.   
Rik, your comments please... what do you prefer? current /proc style, 
seq_file, or the earlier "one counter per /proc" style? 

Thanks,
Kiran