From: Marcelo Tosatti <marcelo.tosatti@cyclades.com>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>, davem@redhat.com
Cc: Kaigai Kohei <kaigai@ak.jp.nec.com>,
jlan@sgi.com, lse-tech@lists.sourceforge.net,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [Lse-tech] Re: A common layer for Accounting packages
Date: Sun, 27 Feb 2005 06:49:49 -0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20050227094949.GA22439@logos.cnet> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20050224212839.7953167c.akpm@osdl.org>
On Thu, Feb 24, 2005 at 09:28:39PM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
> Kaigai Kohei <kaigai@ak.jp.nec.com> wrote:
> >
> > In my understanding, what Andrew Morton said is "If target functionality can
> > implement in user space only, then we should not modify the kernel-tree".
>
> fork, exec and exit upcalls sound pretty good to me. As long as
>
> a) they use the same common machinery and
>
> b) they are next-to-zero cost if something is listening on the netlink
> socket but no accounting daemon is running.
b) would involved being able to avoid sending netlink messages in case there are
no listeners. AFAIK that isnt possible currently, netlink sends
packets unconditionally.
Am I wrong?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-02-27 14:11 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 59+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-02-19 0:51 A common layer for Accounting packages Jay Lan
2005-02-19 1:16 ` Andrew Morton
2005-02-21 6:51 ` Guillaume Thouvenin
2005-02-22 20:11 ` [Lse-tech] " Jay Lan
2005-02-23 7:30 ` Guillaume Thouvenin
2005-02-21 7:54 ` Kaigai Kohei
2005-02-22 20:26 ` Jay Lan
2005-02-23 7:07 ` Kaigai Kohei
2005-02-23 7:20 ` Andrew Morton
2005-02-23 8:33 ` Guillaume Thouvenin
2005-02-23 8:51 ` Andrew Morton
2005-02-23 9:30 ` Guillaume Thouvenin
2005-02-23 9:36 ` Andrew Morton
2005-02-23 19:11 ` Jay Lan
2005-02-24 7:42 ` Guillaume Thouvenin
2005-02-23 9:50 ` Tim Schmielau
2005-02-24 22:27 ` Jay Lan
2005-02-23 11:29 ` Kaigai Kohei
2005-02-23 20:48 ` Jay Lan
2005-02-25 5:07 ` Kaigai Kohei
2005-02-25 5:28 ` Andrew Morton
2005-02-25 17:32 ` Jay Lan
2005-02-25 17:45 ` Chris Wright
2005-02-25 18:11 ` Jay Lan
2005-02-25 21:30 ` Andrew Morton
2005-02-25 22:18 ` Jay Lan
2005-02-27 9:49 ` Marcelo Tosatti [this message]
2005-02-27 15:20 ` KaiGai Kohei
2005-02-27 14:03 ` Marcelo Tosatti
2005-02-27 19:27 ` David S. Miller
2005-02-28 1:59 ` Kaigai Kohei
2005-02-28 2:32 ` Thomas Graf
2005-02-28 5:17 ` Evgeniy Polyakov
2005-02-28 7:20 ` Guillaume Thouvenin
2005-02-28 7:39 ` Andrew Morton
2005-02-28 8:04 ` Evgeniy Polyakov
2005-02-28 12:10 ` jamal
2005-02-28 9:29 ` Marcelo Tosatti
2005-02-28 13:20 ` Thomas Graf
2005-02-28 13:40 ` jamal
2005-02-28 13:53 ` Thomas Graf
2005-02-28 9:52 ` Marcelo Tosatti
2005-02-28 14:10 ` jamal
2005-02-28 14:25 ` Thomas Graf
2005-02-28 15:31 ` jamal
2005-02-28 16:17 ` Evgeniy Polyakov
2005-03-01 8:21 ` Guillaume Thouvenin
2005-03-01 13:38 ` Kaigai Kohei
2005-03-01 13:53 ` Guillaume Thouvenin
2005-03-01 14:17 ` Evgeniy Polyakov
2005-03-02 4:50 ` Paul Jackson
2005-03-02 8:58 ` Guillaume Thouvenin
2005-03-02 9:06 ` Andrew Morton
2005-03-02 9:25 ` Guillaume Thouvenin
2005-03-02 15:30 ` Paul Jackson
2005-03-01 20:40 ` Paul Jackson
2005-02-24 1:25 ` Paul Jackson
2005-02-24 1:56 ` Jay Lan
2005-02-24 2:07 ` Paul Jackson
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