On Tuesday 08 April 2008 01:06:17 pm Paul Menage wrote: > > One of the important API choices would be whether the stats API was > fixed in header files shared with userspace, or whether it would be > possible for stats to be added and dynamically discovered/used by > userspace without needing fixed header file descriptions. > The second idea is much better, I feel. > The difference would be a bit like the old sysctl API (where each > sysctl entry had to be enumerated in a header file) versus the newer > /proc/sys approach where numerical values aren't used and userspace > can determine which entries are supported at runtime, and even access > new previously-unknown entries. > <snip> > > Thoughts? Overall the idea looks good to me. We are also looking at a generic framework in cgroups that would delegate the job of handling statistics to the cgroup framework itself. This would avoid code duplication across various controllers. -- regards, Balaji Rao _______________________________________________ Containers mailing list Containers@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.linux-foundation.org/mailman/listinfo/containers