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From: jamal <hadi@cyberus.ca>
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
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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