From: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@gmail.com>
To: "Iago López Galeiras" <iago@endocode.com>
Cc: Jean Delvare <jdelvare@suse.de>,
LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Djalal Harouni <djalal@endocode.com>,
Alban Crequy <alban@endocode.com>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: config PROC_CHILDREN
Date: Wed, 8 Jul 2015 17:46:11 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20150708144611.GL2054@uranus> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <559D3134.1080603@endocode.com>
On Wed, Jul 08, 2015 at 04:18:28PM +0200, Iago López Galeiras wrote:
...
>
> > That being said, I am curious... Is this interface so expensive that it
> > really deserves a separate option, instead of always enabling it? This
> > seems to be a fairly generic feature that a lot of scripts and tools
> > could benefit from (starting with pstree I suppose.)
>
> I don't think I have enough information to answer that question. I'll CC Cyrill
> Gorcunov and Andrew Morton.
The interface is not expensive per-se but it was developed for
checkpoint/restore in first place so we've been wrapping any
new code created for this sake with CONFIG_. And we (criu
team) were the only users of this interface at those days
so it had lot of sence to keep it conditionally enabled.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-07-08 14:46 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-07-03 7:39 config PROC_CHILDREN Jean Delvare
2015-07-03 9:10 ` Iago López Galeiras
2015-07-04 17:07 ` Jean Delvare
2015-07-08 14:18 ` Iago López Galeiras
2015-07-08 14:46 ` Cyrill Gorcunov [this message]
2015-07-08 14:50 ` Djalal Harouni
2015-07-08 16:33 ` Jean Delvare
2015-07-08 16:34 ` Jean Delvare
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