Re: [Patch][RFC] Disabling per-tgid stats on task exit in taskstats

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Andrew Morton wrote:

On Wed, 21 Jun 2006 12:11:13 -0700
Jay Lan <[email protected]> wrote:

Another observation that i considered bad news is that all
10 runs produced 1 to 5 recv() error with errno=105 (ENOBUF).

Well that's rather bad.  AFAICT most of the allocations in there are
GFP_KERNEL, so why is this happening?

Need to trace the cause.

Because the kernel is producing netlink messages faster than userspace can
consume them, perhaps?
Hmm...possible. A quick check would be to reduce the frequency of exits and see.

If so, the sender needs to block, which means we
need to make reception of these stats a privileged operation?
Won't it suffice to make delivery of these stats best effort, with userspace dealing with missing data, rather than risk delaying exits ? The cases where exits are so frequent as in this program should be very few. Making the reception privileged would kind of constrain the utilization of stats and I'm not
sure if  its warranted.


--Shailabh


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