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To: Martin Peschke <mp3@de.ibm.com>
Cc: akpm@osdl.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [patch 1/6] statistics infrastructure - prerequisite: scatter-gather ringbuffer
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From: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Date: 14 Dec 2005 19:32:28 +0100
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Martin Peschke <mp3@de.ibm.com> writes:

> [patch 1/6] statistics infrastructure - prerequisite: scatter-gather ringbuffer
> 
> This patch implemenents a ringbuffer made up of scattered memory (pages).
> The current implementation allows fixed-size entries to be stored in the
> ringbuffer. There are routines that simplify writing entries to a buffer
> and reading entries from a buffer. Ringbuffer resizing is not supported, yet.
> 
> This is actually a separate feature which could be used for purposes
> other than statistics.

This seems redundant with relayfs.

-Andi