From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751293AbWFODHs (ORCPT ); Wed, 14 Jun 2006 23:07:48 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751308AbWFODHr (ORCPT ); Wed, 14 Jun 2006 23:07:47 -0400 Received: from e32.co.us.ibm.com ([32.97.110.150]:32420 "EHLO e32.co.us.ibm.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751293AbWFODHr (ORCPT ); Wed, 14 Jun 2006 23:07:47 -0400 Message-ID: <4490CD79.2070707@in.ibm.com> Date: Thu, 15 Jun 2006 08:31:13 +0530 From: Balbir Singh Reply-To: balbir@in.ibm.com Organization: IBM India Private Limited User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.12) Gecko/20051205 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Jay Lan Cc: Shailabh Nagar , LKML , Andrew Morton , Chris Sturtivant Subject: Re: ON/OFF control of taskstats accounting data at do_exit References: <449093D6.6000806@engr.sgi.com> In-Reply-To: <449093D6.6000806@engr.sgi.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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 > -- Regards, Balbir Singh, Linux Technology Center, IBM Software Labs