From: Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
To: Anjali Kulkarni <anjali.k.kulkarni@oracle.com>
Cc: "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC] Add a new generic system call which has better performance, to get /proc data, than existing mechanisms
Date: Sun, 20 Nov 2022 09:21:43 +0100 [thread overview]
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On Sat, Nov 19, 2022 at 05:50:03PM +0000, Anjali Kulkarni wrote:
> I will give it a try, but the majority of the savings are due to avoiding the conversion from binary to string in /proc.
That goes contrary to your previous statement saying that the readfile
call would help out here.
And there might be ways to convert binary to strings, perhaps look into
doing that?
good luck,
greg k-h
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2022-11-18 19:12 [RFC] Add a new generic system call which has better performance, to get /proc data, than existing mechanisms Anjali Kulkarni
2022-11-19 8:49 ` Greg KH
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2022-11-20 8:21 ` Greg KH [this message]
2022-11-20 19:37 ` Anjali Kulkarni
2022-11-21 18:28 ` Anjali Kulkarni
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