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From: Benjamin LaHaise <bcrl@redhat.com>
To: Rik van Riel <riel@conectiva.com.br>
Cc: Linux Kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [patch] improve wchan reporting
Date: Thu, 3 Oct 2002 18:48:54 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20021003184854.I16875@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.44L.0210031928590.22735-100000@imladris.surriel.com>; from riel@conectiva.com.br on Thu, Oct 03, 2002 at 07:30:13PM -0300

On Thu, Oct 03, 2002 at 07:30:13PM -0300, Rik van Riel wrote:
> A third option could be a /proc/$pid/backtrace file which
> contains the whole backtrace for a process and teach procps
> to ignore certain functions.

It should really be a separate filesystem, though....

> I prefer your solution, though ;)

There's another problem with the way wchan is currently calculated: it's 
relatively expensive to calculate.  Many of the readers of stat don't actually 
care about it.  By making wchan a value in the task structure, the cost of 
reading it is trivial.

		-ben
-- 
GMS rules.

  reply	other threads:[~2002-10-03 22:43 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-10-03 22:21 [patch] improve wchan reporting Benjamin LaHaise
2002-10-03 22:30 ` Rik van Riel
2002-10-03 22:48   ` Benjamin LaHaise [this message]
2002-10-04 14:10 ` Keith Owens

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