From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1422977AbXCOWhr (ORCPT ); Thu, 15 Mar 2007 18:37:47 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1422981AbXCOWhr (ORCPT ); Thu, 15 Mar 2007 18:37:47 -0400 Received: from ausmtp04.au.ibm.com ([202.81.18.152]:34726 "EHLO ausmtp04.au.ibm.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1422977AbXCOWhp (ORCPT ); Thu, 15 Mar 2007 18:37:45 -0400 Message-ID: <45F9CAB0.2000305@in.ibm.com> Date: Fri, 16 Mar 2007 04:07:36 +0530 From: Balbir Singh Reply-To: balbir@in.ibm.com Organization: IBM User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.9 (X11/20070103) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Andrew Morton CC: rdunlap@xenotime.net, jlan@sgi.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: taskstats accounting info References: <45F7E818.7010608@in.ibm.com> <20070315110655.5a815f2e.akpm@linux-foundation.org> In-Reply-To: <20070315110655.5a815f2e.akpm@linux-foundation.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Andrew Morton wrote: >> On Wed, 14 Mar 2007 17:48:32 +0530 Balbir Singh wrote: >> Randy.Dunlap wrote: >>> Hi, >>> >>> Documentation/accounting/delay-accounting.txt says that the >>> getdelays program has a "-c cmd" argument, but that option >>> does not seem to exist in Documentation/account/getdelays.c. >>> >>> Do you have an updated version of getdelays.c? >>> If not, please correct that documentation. >>> >> Yes, I did, but then I changed my laptop. I should have it archived >> at some place, I'll dig it out or correct the documentation. >> >>> Is getdelays.c the best available example of a program >>> using the taskstats netlink interface? >>> >> It's the most portable example, since it does not depend on libnl. > > err, what is libnl? libnl is a library abstraction for netlink (libnetlink). > > If there exists some real userspace infrastructure which utilises > taskstats, can we please get a referece to it into the kernel > Documentation? Perhaps in the TASKSTATS Kconfig entry, thanks. > That sounds like a good idea. I'll check for details and get back. -- Warm Regards, Balbir Singh Linux Technology Center IBM, ISTL