On Mon, 9 Apr 2007 18:12:57 -0700 William Lee Irwin III <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Mon, 9 Apr 2007 17:42:01 -0700 William Lee Irwin III <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > >> My use for it is report generation in VM (and possibly other) > >> testcases. > > On Mon, Apr 09, 2007 at 05:53:52PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: > > OK. The cool kids are using taskstats for this sort of thing now, but I > > note that taskstats is inexplicably missing the context-switch accounting, > > and perhaps other things? > > Sounds interesting. I'll poke around there for testcase affairs if I > get moving on them first. I've no sentimental attachment to the rusage > patch, so if taskstats do happen to displace this, I'm not concerned. > (That said, it may still make sense to do this for the purposes of API > compatibility. I'll keep it moving along until it's all decided.) > rusage() is a bit easier to use, as it delivers synchronously at task exit. taskstats delivers over netlink into a separate process (and can be polled at any time during task execution) but does require new skills, more (Linux-specific) code and perhaps more complex synchronisation. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
