On Mon, 2002-10-28 at 16:37, John Baldwin wrote: > > On 28-Oct-2002 Joe Marcus Clarke wrote: > > On Mon, 2002-10-28 at 16:27, John Baldwin wrote: > >> > >> On 28-Oct-2002 Terry Lambert wrote: > >> > John Baldwin wrote: > >> >> I mean, do you know what libgtop is used for? It's used to draw > >> >> little applets that display load averages and other silly system > >> >> monitor stuff in small spaces in GUI's. It seems to work quite > >> >> happily w/o any inode numbers or dev_t's for non-UFS filesystems. > >> >> I just don't see why some little graphical applet displaying a load > >> >> average or disk usage or ethernet device usage needs the inode > >> >> number and dev_t of vnode's in the kernel. I mean, geez. > >> > > >> > To build little applets that activate a flashing red light when > >> > certain files are written? > >> > >> Why do you need the inode number to do that. Just kqueue on the > >> file itself using a regular fd, and in that case you can stat(2) > >> the file if you really need the i-node number. You don't need > >> to use libkvm to actually go read the kernel to find this info! > > > > You're probably right. But without waiting to re-architect libgtop, I > > think the immediate problem needs to be fixed. Shall I just commit my > > original patch that uses libkvm? > > Use v_cachedid and v_cachedfs for all VREG vnodes. Then you don't > need to even go near v_tag. This is fewer kvm_read()'s. If stable > has the v_cachedid then it should be using that instead of reading > in UFS inodes as well.
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