From: Eugene Lubarsky <elubarsky.linux@gmail.com>
To: Andrei Vagin <avagin@gmail.com>
Cc: linux-api@vger.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, adobriyan@gmail.com,
dsahern@gmail.com, Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>,
Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>, Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 0/5] Introduce /proc/all/ to gather stats from all processes
Date: Tue, 25 Aug 2020 20:00:01 +1000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200825200001.548b64d8@eug-lubuntu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200820174139.GA919358@gmail.com>
On Thu, 20 Aug 2020 10:41:39 -0700
Andrei Vagin <avagin@gmail.com> wrote:
> Unfotunatly, I don't have enough time to lead a process of pushing
> task_diag into the upstream. So if it is interesting for you, you can
> restart this process and I am ready to help as much as time will
> permit.
>
> I think the main blocking issue was a lack of interest from the wide
> audience to this. The slow proc is the problem just for a few users,
> but task_diag is a big subsystem that repeats functionality of another
> subsystem with all derived problems like code duplication.
Unfortunately I don't have much time either and yes it sounds like
upstreaming a new interface like this will require input & enthusiasm
from more of those who are monitoring large numbers of processes,
which is not really me..
A related issue is that task_diag doesn't currently support the cgroup
filesystem which has the same issues as /proc and is accessed very
heavily by e.g. the Kubernetes kubelet cadvisor. Perhaps more interest
in tackling this could come from the Kubernetes community.
>
> Another blocking issue is a new interface. There was no consensus on
> this. Initially, I suggested to use netlink sockets, but developers
> from non-network subsystem objected on this, so the transaction file
> interface was introduced. The main idea similar to netlink sockets is
> that we write a request and read a response.
>
> There were some security concerns but I think I fixed them.
There's currently a lot of momentum behind io_uring which could not only
enable efficient enumeration and retrieval of small files but maybe it
would also be a more natural place for an API like task_diag..
Best Wishes,
Eugene
prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-08-25 10:00 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-08-10 14:58 [RFC PATCH 0/5] Introduce /proc/all/ to gather stats from all processes Eugene Lubarsky
2020-08-10 14:58 ` [RFC PATCH 1/5] fs/proc: Introduce /proc/all/stat Eugene Lubarsky
2020-08-10 14:58 ` [RFC PATCH 2/5] fs/proc: Introduce /proc/all/statm Eugene Lubarsky
2020-08-10 14:58 ` [RFC PATCH 3/5] fs/proc: Introduce /proc/all/status Eugene Lubarsky
2020-08-10 14:58 ` [RFC PATCH 4/5] fs/proc: Introduce /proc/all/io Eugene Lubarsky
2020-08-10 14:58 ` [RFC PATCH 5/5] fs/proc: Introduce /proc/all/statx Eugene Lubarsky
2020-08-10 15:04 ` [RFC PATCH 0/5] Introduce /proc/all/ to gather stats from all processes Greg KH
2020-08-10 15:27 ` Eugene Lubarsky
2020-08-10 15:41 ` Greg KH
2020-08-25 9:59 ` Eugene Lubarsky
2020-08-12 7:51 ` Andrei Vagin
2020-08-13 4:47 ` David Ahern
2020-08-13 8:03 ` Andrei Vagin
2020-08-13 15:01 ` Eugene Lubarsky
2020-08-20 17:41 ` Andrei Vagin
2020-08-25 10:00 ` Eugene Lubarsky [this message]
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