Re: per-cpu statistics (Re: CVS commit: src)

[yamt%mwd.biglobe.ne.jp@localhost (YAMAMOTO Takashi)]

> On Apr 7, 2008, at 4:25 PM, YAMAMOTO Takashi wrote:
> 
> > will it be something generic enough to replace evcnt?
> 
> Right now I'm just getting the network protocol stats into percpu  
> storage, collated when requested via sysctl.  I'll attack evcnt  
> separately.  I don't want to use evcnt (just yet) to replace the  
> various network protocol stats.  It's mostly a matter of usage -- how  
> programs expect to be able to access this data currently.
> 
> At the very least, the direction I'm going would allow us to replace  
> the protocol stat implementation pretty painlessly if we decided to do  
> so.
> 
> -- thorpej

while converting existing sysctls is fine, we need to introduce a
kernel-userland interface for currently kmem-based statistics
(including evcnt) at some point.  i'd like to see something like
solaris kstat rather than sprinkling random nodes in the sysctl tree.

YAMAMOTO Takashi