From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756038AbYEWRTc (ORCPT ); Fri, 23 May 2008 13:19:32 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751799AbYEWRTY (ORCPT ); Fri, 23 May 2008 13:19:24 -0400 Received: from turing-police.cc.vt.edu ([128.173.14.107]:56936 "EHLO turing-police.cc.vt.edu" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751543AbYEWRTY (ORCPT ); Fri, 23 May 2008 13:19:24 -0400 X-Mailer: exmh version 2.7.2 01/07/2005 with nmh-1.2 To: cpw@sgi.com (Cliff Wickman) Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [RFC] use of /sys versus /proc In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 23 May 2008 08:12:55 CDT." <20080523131255.C19831F0380@attica.americas.sgi.com> From: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu References: <20080523131255.C19831F0380@attica.americas.sgi.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="==_Exmh_1211563160_2938P"; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Fri, 23 May 2008 13:19:20 -0400 Message-ID: <23175.1211563160@turing-police.cc.vt.edu> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org --==_Exmh_1211563160_2938P Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii 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? --==_Exmh_1211563160_2938P Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Exmh version 2.5 07/13/2001 iD8DBQFINvyYcC3lWbTT17ARAu+lAKCHFr585F7QOeadwBIanq+R37RwRwCdEaJy tRlRbpVZCpG1qDwB1Xizvx0= =M1u5 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --==_Exmh_1211563160_2938P--