From: Roland Dreier <rdreier@cisco.com>
To: Jack Steiner <steiner@sgi.com>
Cc: akpm@osdl.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, mingo@elte.hu,
tglx@linutronix.de, holt@sgi.com, andrea@qumranet.com
Subject: Re: [patch 09/11] GRU Driver - /proc interfaces
Date: Tue, 10 Jun 2008 07:20:10 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <aday75d5q3p.fsf@cisco.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080609221105.GA20211@sgi.com> (Jack Steiner's message of "Mon, 9 Jun 2008 17:11:06 -0500")
> AFAICT, this is not a format that is compatible with the /sys guidelines of 1 value
> per file.
>
> A system can have 1000's of GRU chiplets. Having separate collection of files for
> each set of metrics is clumsy. What other drivers have similar issues. I'll
> gladly copy whatever makes sense.
I guess the closest parallel would be networking, where you might have
1000s of routes etc. So maybe netlink is your best bet.
- R.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-06-10 14:20 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-06-09 21:10 [patch 00/11] GRU Driver steiner
2008-06-09 21:10 ` [patch 01/11] GRU Driver - hardware data structures steiner
2008-06-09 22:52 ` Andrew Morton
2008-06-10 4:07 ` Andi Kleen
2008-06-11 18:57 ` Jack Steiner
2008-06-09 21:10 ` [patch 02/11] GRU Driver - GRU instructions & macros steiner
2008-06-09 21:10 ` [patch 03/11] GRU Driver - driver internal header files steiner
2008-06-09 21:38 ` Roland Dreier
2008-06-10 14:57 ` Jack Steiner
2008-06-09 21:10 ` [patch 04/11] GRU Driver - kernel services " steiner
2008-06-09 21:10 ` [patch 05/11] GRU Driver - driver initialization, file & vma ops steiner
2008-06-09 21:10 ` [patch 06/11] GRU Driver - page faults & exceptions steiner
2008-06-09 21:10 ` [patch 07/11] GRU Driver - kernel services provide by driver steiner
2008-06-09 21:10 ` [patch 08/11] GRU Driver - resource management steiner
2008-06-09 21:10 ` [patch 09/11] GRU Driver - /proc interfaces steiner
2008-06-09 21:32 ` Roland Dreier
2008-06-09 22:11 ` Jack Steiner
2008-06-10 14:20 ` Roland Dreier [this message]
2008-06-09 21:10 ` [patch 10/11] GRU Driver - TLB flushing, MMUOPS callouts steiner
2008-06-09 21:10 ` [patch 11/11] GRU Driver - makefile & Kconfig file changes steiner
2008-06-09 21:35 ` Roland Dreier
2008-06-10 14:41 ` Jack Steiner
2008-06-12 13:27 ` [patch 00/11] GRU Driver Ingo Molnar
2008-06-12 14:05 ` Jack Steiner
2008-06-12 18:03 ` Andrew Morton
2008-06-12 20:52 ` Jack Steiner
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