From: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
To: Jay Lan <jlan@engr.sgi.com>
Cc: nagar@watson.ibm.com, balbir@in.ibm.com, csturtiv@sgi.com,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [Patch][RFC] Disabling per-tgid stats on task exit in taskstats
Date: Wed, 21 Jun 2006 14:54:43 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060621145443.b58daf31.akpm@osdl.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4499BDDD.3010206@engr.sgi.com>
On Wed, 21 Jun 2006 14:45:01 -0700
Jay Lan <jlan@engr.sgi.com> wrote:
> > Won't it suffice to make delivery of these stats best effort, with
> > userspace dealing with missing data,
>
> How do you recover the missed data?
I suspect the best we can do is to let userspace know that data was lost.
Is the -ENOBUFS reliable?
> > rather than risk delaying exits ? The cases where exits are so
> > frequent as in this program should be
>
> This is very true. However, it was a 2p IA64 machine. I am too frightened to
> speak "512p"...
If we have 511 CPUs generating data faster than one CPU can handle it,
something bad will happen. We either throttle the 511 CPUs or drop data.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-06-21 21:54 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 134+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-06-09 7:41 [Patch][RFC] Disabling per-tgid stats on task exit in taskstats Shailabh Nagar
2006-06-09 8:00 ` Andrew Morton
2006-06-09 10:51 ` Balbir Singh
2006-06-09 11:21 ` Andrew Morton
2006-06-09 13:20 ` Shailabh Nagar
2006-06-09 18:25 ` Jay Lan
2006-06-09 19:12 ` Shailabh Nagar
2006-06-09 15:36 ` Balbir Singh
2006-06-09 18:35 ` Jay Lan
2006-06-09 19:31 ` Shailabh Nagar
2006-06-09 21:56 ` Shailabh Nagar
2006-06-09 22:42 ` Jay Lan
2006-06-09 23:22 ` Andrew Morton
2006-06-09 23:47 ` Jay Lan
2006-06-09 23:56 ` Andrew Morton
2006-06-10 12:21 ` Shailabh Nagar
2006-06-12 18:31 ` Jay Lan
2006-06-12 21:57 ` Shailabh Nagar
2006-06-10 13:05 ` Shailabh Nagar
2006-06-12 18:54 ` Jay Lan
2006-06-21 19:11 ` Jay Lan
2006-06-21 19:14 ` Jay Lan
2006-06-21 19:34 ` Shailabh Nagar
2006-06-21 23:35 ` Jay Lan
2006-06-21 23:45 ` Shailabh Nagar
2006-06-23 17:14 ` Shailabh Nagar
2006-06-23 18:19 ` Jay Lan
2006-06-23 18:53 ` Shailabh Nagar
2006-06-23 20:00 ` Jay Lan
2006-06-23 20:16 ` Shailabh Nagar
2006-06-23 20:36 ` Jay Lan
2006-06-23 21:19 ` Andrew Morton
2006-06-23 22:07 ` Jay Lan
2006-06-23 23:47 ` Andrew Morton
2006-06-24 2:59 ` Shailabh Nagar
2006-06-24 4:39 ` Andrew Morton
2006-06-24 5:59 ` Shailabh Nagar
2006-06-26 17:33 ` Jay Lan
2006-06-26 17:52 ` Shailabh Nagar
2006-06-26 17:55 ` Andrew Morton
2006-06-26 18:00 ` Shailabh Nagar
2006-06-26 18:12 ` Andrew Morton
2006-06-26 18:26 ` Jay Lan
2006-06-26 18:39 ` Andrew Morton
2006-06-26 18:49 ` Shailabh Nagar
2006-06-26 19:00 ` Jay Lan
2006-06-28 21:30 ` Jay Lan
2006-06-28 21:53 ` Andrew Morton
2006-06-28 22:02 ` Jay Lan
2006-06-29 8:40 ` Paul Jackson
2006-06-29 12:30 ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2006-06-29 16:44 ` Paul Jackson
2006-06-29 18:01 ` Andrew Morton
2006-06-29 18:07 ` Paul Jackson
2006-06-29 18:26 ` Paul Jackson
2006-06-29 19:15 ` Shailabh Nagar
2006-06-29 19:41 ` Paul Jackson
2006-06-29 21:42 ` Shailabh Nagar
2006-06-29 21:54 ` Jay Lan
2006-06-29 22:09 ` Shailabh Nagar
2006-06-29 22:23 ` Paul Jackson
2006-06-30 0:15 ` Shailabh Nagar
2006-06-30 0:40 ` Paul Jackson
2006-06-30 1:00 ` Shailabh Nagar
2006-06-30 1:05 ` Paul Jackson
[not found] ` <44A46C6C.1090405@watson.ibm.com>
2006-06-30 0:38 ` Paul Jackson
2006-06-30 2:21 ` Paul Jackson
2006-06-30 2:46 ` Shailabh Nagar
2006-06-30 2:54 ` Paul Jackson
2006-06-30 3:02 ` Paul Jackson
2006-06-29 19:22 ` Shailabh Nagar
2006-06-29 19:10 ` Shailabh Nagar
2006-06-29 19:23 ` Paul Jackson
2006-06-29 19:33 ` Andrew Morton
2006-06-29 19:43 ` Shailabh Nagar
2006-06-29 20:00 ` Andrew Morton
2006-06-29 22:13 ` Shailabh Nagar
2006-06-29 23:00 ` jamal
2006-06-29 20:01 ` Shailabh Nagar
2006-06-29 21:22 ` Paul Jackson
2006-06-29 22:54 ` jamal
2006-06-30 0:38 ` Shailabh Nagar
2006-06-30 1:05 ` Andrew Morton
2006-06-30 1:11 ` Shailabh Nagar
2006-06-30 1:30 ` jamal
2006-06-30 3:01 ` Shailabh Nagar
2006-06-30 12:45 ` jamal
2006-06-30 2:25 ` Paul Jackson
2006-06-30 2:35 ` Andrew Morton
2006-06-30 2:43 ` Paul Jackson
2006-06-29 19:33 ` Jay Lan
2006-06-30 18:53 ` Shailabh Nagar
2006-06-30 19:10 ` Shailabh Nagar
2006-06-30 19:19 ` Shailabh Nagar
2006-06-30 20:19 ` jamal
2006-06-30 22:50 ` Andrew Morton
2006-07-01 2:20 ` Shailabh Nagar
2006-07-01 2:43 ` Andrew Morton
2006-07-01 3:37 ` Shailabh Nagar
2006-07-01 3:51 ` Andrew Morton
2006-07-03 21:11 ` Shailabh Nagar
2006-07-03 21:41 ` Andrew Morton
2006-07-04 0:13 ` Shailabh Nagar
2006-07-04 0:38 ` Andrew Morton
2006-07-04 20:19 ` Paul Jackson
2006-07-04 20:22 ` Paul Jackson
2006-07-04 0:54 ` Shailabh Nagar
2006-07-04 1:01 ` Andrew Morton
2006-07-04 13:05 ` jamal
2006-07-04 15:18 ` Shailabh Nagar
2006-07-04 16:37 ` Shailabh Nagar
2006-07-04 19:24 ` jamal
2006-07-05 14:09 ` Shailabh Nagar
2006-07-05 20:25 ` Chris Sturtivant
2006-07-05 20:32 ` Shailabh Nagar
2006-07-03 4:53 ` Paul Jackson
2006-07-03 15:02 ` Shailabh Nagar
2006-07-03 15:55 ` Paul Jackson
2006-07-03 16:31 ` Paul Jackson
2006-07-04 0:09 ` Shailabh Nagar
2006-07-04 19:59 ` Paul Jackson
2006-07-05 17:20 ` Jay Lan
2006-07-05 18:18 ` Shailabh Nagar
2006-06-30 22:56 ` Andrew Morton
2006-06-29 18:05 ` Nick Piggin
2006-06-29 12:42 ` Shailabh Nagar
2006-06-24 3:08 ` Shailabh Nagar
2006-06-21 20:38 ` Andrew Morton
2006-06-21 21:31 ` Shailabh Nagar
2006-06-21 21:45 ` Jay Lan
2006-06-21 21:54 ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2006-06-21 22:19 ` Jay Lan
2006-06-21 21:59 ` Shailabh Nagar
2006-06-09 15:55 ` Chris Sturtivant
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