linux-kernel - Re: seq_put_decimal

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Date:	Fri, 16 Mar 2012 13:16:17 +0200
From:	Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@...il.com>
To:	KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@...fujitsu.com>
Cc:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Linux Kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
Subject: Re: seq_put_decimal_ull() et al

On Wed, Mar 14, 2012 at 5:08 AM, KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
<kamezawa.hiroyu@...fujitsu.com> wrote:
> On Wed, 14 Mar 2012 09:31:56 +0900
> KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@...fujitsu.com> wrote:
>
>> On Tue, 13 Mar 2012 15:35:54 +0200
>> Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@...il.com> wrote:
>>
>> > > Subject:    + procfs-add-num_to_str-to-speed-up-proc-stat-fix-2.patch added to -mm tree
>> >
>> > I think the fix is to create proper binary interface for exporting
>> > interrupt counts.
>> > Programs can parse raw data equally well if programming language is
>> > even minimally reasonable
>> > (POSIX shell may not qualify, though).
>>
>> Ok, please try with all tool-chain updates.
>> procps, top, sar, and more ?
>>

Well, why not?
We can tune print code or we can create maximally fast interface and forget.

> One concern is maintainance of 2 files of the same data.

The other is all those multiplying print functions.
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