Messages in this thread |  | | From | Arnd Bergmann <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 0/7] [RFC] kernel: add a netlink interface to get information about processes | Date | Tue, 17 Feb 2015 09:53:09 +0100 |
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On Tuesday 17 February 2015 11:20:19 Andrey Vagin wrote: > task_diag is based on netlink sockets and looks like socket-diag, which > is used to get information about sockets. > > A request is described by the task_diag_pid structure: > > struct task_diag_pid { > __u64 show_flags; /* specify which information are required */ > __u64 dump_stratagy; /* specify a group of processes */ > > __u32 pid; > };
Can you explain how the interface relates to the 'taskstats' genetlink API? Did you consider extending that interface to provide the information you need instead of basing on the socket-diag?
Arnd
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