linux-kernel - Fwd: Re: New Metrics to measure Load average

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Date:	Sat, 04 Oct 2008 00:22:58 +1000
From:	sena seneviratne <auntvini@....usyd.edu.au>
To:	balbir@...ux.vnet.ibm.com
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, arjan@...radead.org
Subject: Fwd: Re: New Metrics to measure Load average

Dear Balbir Singh,

This is one of the e-mails probably the last.
By this time I have finshed 2.4.19 kernel.

Thanks
Sena Seneviratne
Computer Engineering Lab
School of Electrical and Information Engineering
Sydney University
Australia

>Date: Tue, 20 Jun 2006 19:43:36 +1000
>To: balbir@...ibm.com
>From: sena seneviratne <auntvini@...al.usyd.edu.au>
>Subject: Re: New Metrics to measure Load average
>
>Dear Balbir Singh,
>
>Thanks for your reply and for your time.
>
>Then I will have to transfer from 2.4.18 to 2.6.18
>
>Ok Balbir  I will do that.
>
>
>Kind regards
>Sena Seneviratne
>Computer Engineering Lab
>School of Electrical and Information Engineering
>Sydney University
>Australia
>
>
>
>At 02:29 PM 6/20/2006 +0530, you wrote:
>>sena seneviratne wrote:
>>>Dear Balbir Singh,
>>>Thanks for your valuable reply.
>>>Balbir  It looks like that there is a general project where we all can 
>>>incorporate our work.
>>
>>
>>Yes it is. It is currently in -mm and we hope that it makes it into
>>2.6.18. The folder Documentation/accounting contains all the necessary
>>details for you to build on top of delay stats.
>>
>>
>>>--How do you calculate disk load? Is it the
>>>---number of uninterruptible tasks in the system?  Yes I started at that 
>>>point
>>>
>>>Few years ago the few additions I have explained, have been implemented 
>>>in linux 2.4.18 kernel at  the Sydney Uni as part of a large research project.
>>>Also few years ago I have posted many posts about this topic to this 
>>>forum.  Few very experience hands  were advising me in coding at that 
>>>time. To prove this I have all the e-mails with me. Yet then I had not 
>>>explained to this forum about the research project which involved 
>>>prediction algorithm as then it had not been published.
>>>Thereafter few research papers have been published with regard to this. 
>>>1 in US.
>>>Currently I am preparing the changes to a more recent linux patch. In 
>>>fact this is not hard as I have already changed the previous linux 2.4.18.
>>
>>Please cc us when you post the patches.
>>
>>>Before coming to do research I had worked as a Senior software engineer 
>>>in few companies and my last was LogicaCMG. Yet as far as the kernel 
>>>programming is concerned I will ask for your comments and advice.
>>
>>Let us know if you need any help for coding on top of taskstats.
>>
>>>Thanks
>>>Sena Seneviratne
>>>Computer Engineering Lab
>>>School of Electrical and Information Engineering
>>>Sydney University
>>>Australia

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