From: Rik van Riel <riel@conectiva.com.br>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@digeo.com>
Cc: Rick Lindsley <ricklind@us.ibm.com>, <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC][PATCH] sard changes for 2.5.34
Date: Thu, 12 Sep 2002 17:38:27 -0300 (BRT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.44L.0209121734190.1857-100000@imladris.surriel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3D80EE1D.34AF4FF2@digeo.com>
On Thu, 12 Sep 2002, Andrew Morton wrote:
> Looks like we can take the disk stats out of kernel_stat, move all
> the vm-related things out of kernel_stat into struct page_state and
> what's left of kernel_stat?
>
> unsigned int per_cpu_user[NR_CPUS],
> per_cpu_nice[NR_CPUS],
> per_cpu_system[NR_CPUS];
[ insert idle and iowait stats here ;) ]
> unsigned int irqs[NR_CPUS][NR_IRQS];
>
> And that's good, because "kernel statistics" was clearly too
> broad a concept. The above is just one concept: interrupts and
> scheduler things.
Absolutely agreed, this makes things much more manageable.
Btw, how about accounting for the number of syscalls made,
like some other Unix systems do ? ;)
> I'm not sure that I want to add 14 more fields to /proc/meminfo.
> So a new /proc/vmstat may appear. We would then have:
>
> /proc/stat scheduler things
> /proc/diskstat disk things
> /proc/vmstat vm things
Sounds fair, current procps doesn't support the new /proc/stat
fields anyway. Let me know what stuff will look like and I'll
get procps into gear.
regards,
Rik
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-09-12 20:34 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-09-12 2:10 [RFC][PATCH] sard changes for 2.5.34 Rick Lindsley
2002-09-12 2:42 ` Andrew Morton
2002-09-12 2:50 ` Rik van Riel
2002-09-12 6:40 ` Rick Lindsley
2002-09-12 7:20 ` Andrew Morton
2002-09-12 9:18 ` Rick Lindsley
2002-09-12 10:01 ` Alexander Viro
2002-09-12 10:33 ` Rick Lindsley
2002-09-12 19:42 ` Andrew Morton
2002-09-12 20:38 ` Rik van Riel [this message]
2002-09-12 16:16 ` Rik van Riel
2002-09-12 16:48 ` Andrew Morton
2002-09-12 23:32 ` Denis Vlasenko
2002-09-12 18:49 ` Andrew Morton
2002-09-12 19:50 ` Rick Lindsley
2002-09-13 11:39 Dipankar Sarma
2002-09-14 18:57 Lev Makhlis
2002-09-18 17:54 ` Randy.Dunlap
2002-09-18 19:43 ` Lev Makhlis
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