From: jamal <hadi@cyberus.ca>
To: balbir@in.ibm.com
Cc: Shailabh Nagar <nagar@watson.ibm.com>,
netdev <netdev@vger.kernel.org>,
linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
lse-tech@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [UPDATED PATCH] Re: [Lse-tech] Re: [Patch 7/7] Generic netlink interface (delay accounting)
Date: Fri, 10 Mar 2006 10:35:34 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1142004934.5255.3.camel@jzny2> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1142002433.5298.42.camel@jzny2>
On Fri, 2006-10-03 at 09:53 -0500, jamal wrote:
>
> a) shipping of the taskstats from kernel to user-space asynchronously to
> all listeners on multicast channel/group TASKSTATS_LISTEN_GRP
> at the point when some process exits.
> b) responding to queries issued by the user to the kernel for taskstats
> of a particular defined tgid and/or pid combination.
>
> Did i summarize your goals correctly?
>
> So lets stat with #b:
> i) the message is multicast; there has to be a user space app registered
> to the multicast group otherwise nothing goes to user space.
I mispoke:
The above applies to #a.
For #b, the message from/to kernel to user is unicast.
cheers,
jamal
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-03-10 15:35 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
[not found] <1141026996.5785.38.camel@elinux04.optonline.net>
2006-02-27 8:31 ` [Patch 7/7] Generic netlink interface (delay accounting) Shailabh Nagar
[not found] ` <1141045194.5363.12.camel@localhost.localdomain>
[not found] ` <4403608E.1050304@watson.ibm.com>
[not found] ` <1141652556.5185.64.camel@localhost.localdomain>
2006-03-06 17:00 ` Shailabh Nagar
2006-03-07 14:38 ` [Lse-tech] " jamal
2006-03-08 21:56 ` Shailabh Nagar
2006-03-09 14:37 ` [UPDATED PATCH] " Balbir Singh
2006-03-09 16:06 ` Shailabh Nagar
2006-03-10 14:53 ` jamal
2006-03-10 15:35 ` jamal [this message]
2006-03-10 16:39 ` Balbir Singh
2006-03-11 13:30 ` jamal
2006-03-13 16:21 ` [UPDATED PATCH] Re: [Lse-tech] " Balbir Singh
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