On Sat, 12 Nov 2005, Claudio Scordino wrote: > > > > In which case the only comment I have is the one about accuracy - and > > that is true for procfs too so will only come up if someone gets the > > urge to use perfctr timers for precision resource management > > According to your comments, this the final patch. this only lets you get RUSAGE_SELF data for the target... for many processes it's more important to get the RUSAGE_CHILDREN data... and really i'm having a hard time imagining a use for this code which on further inspection doesn't eventually blow up to the requirements of a proper accounting subsystem... (of which i understand there are two or three competining implementations in progress?) do you have a use case for this new code? -dean -- Kernelnewbies: Help each other learn about the Linux kernel. Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/kernelnewbies/ FAQ: http://kernelnewbies.org/faq/
