Fwd: Re: New Metrics to measure Load average

[sena seneviratne]

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@xxxxxxxxxx
> From: sena seneviratne <auntvini@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> 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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