Re: statistics infrastructure

Greg KH
2006-06-05T16:32:36Z

On Mon, Jun 05, 2006 at 09:05:01AM +0800, Fengguang Wu wrote:
> On Sun, Jun 04, 2006 at 01:50:11PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > statistics-infrastructure.patch
>
> > Another tough one. It offers generic intrastructure for non-task-related
> > instrumentation and it would really be good if someone who has an interest
> > in this for something other than the zfcp driver could stand up and say
> > "this works for us".
>
> I'm having a try of it. Looks good for my case, except some fixable
> issues/bugs. Here is a sample session for querying the readahead statistics:

The last I looked at this, it seemed way too complex for what was
needed. A lot of the filtering and other parsing stuff should be done
by a userspace tool, not the kernel. I'll take a second look at it and
see what I can comment on.

But I don't think it's 2.6.18 material yet...

thanks,

greg k-h