Re: [patch] kstat cleanup

[Ravikiran G Thirumalai <kiran@in.ibm.com>]

Hi Andrew,
Here is the kstat cleanup patch set with all the arch changes.
Applies neatly on mm-3.  I am mailing the url since both the patches
exceed 40k limit by  900 bytes  :).  The first patch is for
generic+i386 changes, the second patch is for arch specific changes
for all other archs. Tested well on a PIII 4 way.
 
Patches can be found at:
http://osdn.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/lse/kstat-2.5.44-mm3-2.patch
and
http://osdn.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/lse/kstat-arch-2.5.44-mm3.patch
 
Thanks,
Kiran

On Tue, Oct 22, 2002 at 07:41:11PM +0530, Ravikiran G Thirumalai wrote:
> Hi Andrew,
> Here's the kstat cleanup you'd suggested sometime ago.
> I have used Rusty's per_cpu infrastructure for the stats now.
> Here're the changes in short.
> 
> 1. Break out disk stats from kernel_stat and move disk stat to blkdev.h
> 2. Group cpu stat in kernel_stat and make them "per_cpu" instead of
>    the NR_CPUS array
> 3. Remove EXPORT_SYMBOL(kstat) from ksyms.c (as I noticed that no module is
>    using kstat)
> 
> The foll patch is tested on a 4 way PIII xeon. This patch has changes
> for i386 files (+ arch independent changes)(.. it'll break other archs).  
> I am in the process of changing other archs.  Patch for the same to follow 
> soon. In the meanwhile, do let me know if the patch is ok by you. Patch
> applies neatly on 2.5..44-mm2