Re: ON/OFF control of taskstats accounting data at do_exit

[Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com>]

Jay Lan wrote:
> Hi Balbir and Shailabh,
> 
> I propose we add the capability to turn ON/OFF the multicase of
> taskstats accounting data at do_exit().
> 
> This would allow 'chkconfig taskstats' like of control similar
> to 'chkconfig acct' for BSD accounting. Sometimes sysadmins would
> wish to turn off sending accounting data to the multicast socket.
> We have seen many situations that our CSA customers need to turn
> off CSA for a period of time.

If we need to turn the entire sending of stats off, then closing
the socket listening on the multicast group should turn off sending
of accounting information. Am I missing something?

> 
> I think this feature is very important to this new interface.
> 
> Thanks,
>  - jay
> 



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	Regards,
	Balbir Singh,
	Linux Technology Center,
	IBM Software Labs