Re: [PATCH] Introduce block I/O performance histograms

From: Edward Falk
Date: Thu Nov 16 2006 - 15:04:57 EST


Jens Axboe wrote:

I don't see the point at all for including this piece of code in the
kernel. You can do the same from user space. Your help entry said it
even grows the kernel size about 21k, that's pretty nasty.

How would you do this from user space? Also, the 21k increase is only in effect if the feature is turned on in the config, and it's off by default.

-ed falk
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