From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S966028AbXDJAmz (ORCPT ); Mon, 9 Apr 2007 20:42:55 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S966031AbXDJAmz (ORCPT ); Mon, 9 Apr 2007 20:42:55 -0400 Received: from holomorphy.com ([66.93.40.71]:58636 "EHLO holomorphy.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S966028AbXDJAmy (ORCPT ); Mon, 9 Apr 2007 20:42:54 -0400 Date: Mon, 9 Apr 2007 17:42:01 -0700 From: William Lee Irwin III To: Andrew Morton Cc: Eric Dumazet , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: per-thread rusage Message-ID: <20070410004201.GA2986@holomorphy.com> References: <20070404172931.GM2986@holomorphy.com> <20070404194829.1a93d8fd.dada1@cosmosbay.com> <20070404181050.GN2986@holomorphy.com> <20070409165315.4704021f.akpm@linux-foundation.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20070409165315.4704021f.akpm@linux-foundation.org> Organization: The Domain of Holomorphy User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.13 (2006-08-11) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Wed, 4 Apr 2007 11:10:50 -0700 William Lee Irwin III wrote: >> Respun vs. 2.6.21-rc5-mm4, still untested. Also... >> Signed-off-by: William Irwin [...] On Mon, Apr 09, 2007 at 04:53:15PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: > Seems sane. Could we please get it tested and get a full description in > place? Something which provides enough detail for the manpage maintainers. > Also, a quick comparison between Linux's RUSAGE_THREAD and $other-os's > implementations would reduce the possibility of silly, cast-in-stone > incompatabilities. The latter is the more serious of the two. I'll go about investigating that as the primary task here. Testing and a more verbose patch description are clearly very little work. General maintenance-relevant commentary: This patch arose from an observation of a lacuna in the API. There are no bugs or apps broken awaiting this as a fix, so it's not needed by 2.6.22 or otherwise urgently. My use for it is report generation in VM (and possibly other) testcases. The ack-in-concept is good enough for me to go about sweeping up the OS/standards compatibility, testing, and documentation issues in the near future prior to resubmission. -- wli