From: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu
To: cpw@sgi.com (Cliff Wickman)
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC] use of /sys versus /proc
Date: Fri, 23 May 2008 13:19:20 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <23175.1211563160@turing-police.cc.vt.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 23 May 2008 08:12:55 CDT." <20080523131255.C19831F0380@attica.americas.sgi.com>
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On Fri, 23 May 2008 08:12:55 CDT, Cliff Wickman said:
>
> I have a need to display TLB shootdown statistics. (I'm working
> on a patch to implement this on a new machine at SGI.)
>
> I had planned to display these statistics through /proc
> as in arch/ia64/sn/kernel/sn2/sn2_smp.c (/proc/sgi_sn/ptc_statistics).
>
> However, considering the general move to reserve /proc for
> process-related things, I thought the community might prefer the
> interface to be in /sys.
Is debugfs an option?
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-05-23 17:19 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-05-23 13:12 Cliff Wickman
2008-05-23 17:19 ` Valdis.Kletnieks [this message]
2008-05-23 20:48 ` Cliff Wickman
2008-05-23 20:47 ` Alexey Dobriyan
2008-05-23 20:08 ` Robin Holt
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