On Wed, 21 Jun 2006 14:45:01 -0700 Jay Lan <[email protected]> wrote: > > Won't it suffice to make delivery of these stats best effort, with > > userspace dealing with missing data, > > How do you recover the missed data? I suspect the best we can do is to let userspace know that data was lost. Is the -ENOBUFS reliable? > > rather than risk delaying exits ? The cases where exits are so > > frequent as in this program should be > > This is very true. However, it was a 2p IA64 machine. I am too frightened to > speak "512p"... If we have 511 CPUs generating data faster than one CPU can handle it, something bad will happen. We either throttle the 511 CPUs or drop data. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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