Re: [PATCH 1/9] [I/OAT] DMA memcpy subsystem

[Kumar Gala]

On Mar 30, 2006, at 12:36 PM, Andrew Grover wrote:

> On 3/30/06, Kumar Gala <galak@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > What is the utility of exporting memcpy_count, and bytes_transferred
> > to userspace via sysfs?  Is this really for debug (and thus should be
> > under debugfs?)
>
> Well....it's true they're useful for debugging but I would put them in
> the category of system statistics that shouldn't go in debugfs. I
> think they are like /proc/interrupts' interrupt counts or the TX/RX
> stats reported by ifconfig.

Fair, but wouldn't it be better to have the association per client.

Maybe leave the one as a summary and have a dir per client with  
similar stats that are for each client and add a per channel summary  
at the top level as well.

- kumar

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