On Fri, 2006-10-03 at 09:53 -0500, jamal wrote: > > a) shipping of the taskstats from kernel to user-space asynchronously to > all listeners on multicast channel/group TASKSTATS_LISTEN_GRP > at the point when some process exits. > b) responding to queries issued by the user to the kernel for taskstats > of a particular defined tgid and/or pid combination. > > Did i summarize your goals correctly? > > So lets stat with #b: > i) the message is multicast; there has to be a user space app registered > to the multicast group otherwise nothing goes to user space.
I mispoke: The above applies to #a. For #b, the message from/to kernel to user is unicast. cheers, jamal - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html