Hi Mulyadi :) On 14 September 2011 12:44, Mulyadi Santosa <mulyadi.santosa@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> >From what I understand: In case (1), the kernel code executes in the >> context of the application, so the CPU cycles are accounted directly >> to process that called write() (or send/sendto). > > excellent thinking, however AFAIK sometimes (or most of the times > now?) data sending is done in asynchronous style..... so the counting > might be not so accurate since we don't really know how much the data > that are transmitted... Ah I completely forgot asynchronous case. Thanks for pointing it out! > >>But in case (2), > > excellent thinking..... I place my bet on ksoftirqd > Thanks. I think it makes sense. Let me think of a way to actually confirm this. If you know of a way, do chip in :-) thanks, -- Vimal _______________________________________________ Kernelnewbies mailing list Kernelnewbies@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.kernelnewbies.org/mailman/listinfo/kernelnewbies
