Re: Time to deprecate crash dump support in stats tools (or KVM-grovelers in general)?

[Jason Thorpe <thorpej%shagadelic.org@localhost>]

On Apr 13, 2008, at 10:15 PM, Simon Burge wrote:

> The problem with this is that a number of sysctl's aren't just "read"
> from the kernel - the kernel does some amount of work to build the  
> reply
> first then copies the results out to userland.  Common examples are
> things that follow linked lists in the kernel, but then present a nice
> simple array (often nice 64-bit alignment friendly structures  
> instead of
> "raw" structures used in the original data) to userland.

...or, like my current pet project, collating per-cpu copies of  
network protocol stats.


> Cheers,
> Simon.

-- thorpej