Re: [patch 1/6] statistics infrastructure - prerequisite: scatter-gather ringbuffer

From: Andi Kleen
Date: Wed Dec 14 2005 - 13:31:39 EST


Martin Peschke <mp3@xxxxxxxxxx> writes:

> [patch 1/6] statistics infrastructure - prerequisite: scatter-gather ringbuffer
>
> This patch implemenents a ringbuffer made up of scattered memory (pages).
> The current implementation allows fixed-size entries to be stored in the
> ringbuffer. There are routines that simplify writing entries to a buffer
> and reading entries from a buffer. Ringbuffer resizing is not supported, yet.
>
> This is actually a separate feature which could be used for purposes
> other than statistics.

This seems redundant with relayfs.

-Andi
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