linux-kernel - Re: [ProbableSpam] Re: [RFC, PATCH 0/5] Going forward with Resource Management

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Date:	Mon, 07 Aug 2006 11:19:58 -0700
From:	Rohit Seth <rohitseth@...gle.com>
To:	Paul Jackson <pj@....com>
Cc:	Kirill Korotaev <dev@...ru>, nagar@...son.ibm.com, akpm@...l.org,
	vatsa@...ibm.com, mingo@...e.hu, nickpiggin@...oo.com.au,
	sam@...ain.net, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, dev@...nvz.org,
	efault@....de, balbir@...ibm.com, sekharan@...ibm.com,
	haveblue@...ibm.com
Subject: Re: [ProbableSpam] Re: [RFC, PATCH 0/5] Going forward with
	Resource Management - A cpu  controller

On Mon, 2006-08-07 at 10:15 -0700, Paul Jackson wrote:
> > we have a /proc which is very convenient for use from shell etc. but
> > is not good for applications, not fast enough etc.
> > moreover, /proc had always problems with locking, races and people tend to
> > feel like they can change text presention of data, while applications parsing
> > it tend to break.
> 
> Yes - one can botch a file system API.
> 
> One can botch syscalls, too.  Do you love 'ioctl'?
> 
> For some calls, the performance of a raw syscall is critical.  And
> eventually, filesystem API's must resolve to raw file i/o syscalls.
> 
> But for these sorts of system configuration and management, the
> difference in performance between file system API's and raw syscall
> API's is not one of the decisive issues that determines success or
> failure.
> 
> Getting a decent API that naturally reflects the long term essential
> shape of the data is one of these decisive issues.
> 

Absolutely.  Performance is really not a key here.  Setting-up (or
Tearing down) these  operations shouldn't be that frequent.  Configfs
(or proc) should be able to handle those.


-rohit


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