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library: eliminate distorted history 1st time switches

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Upon reflection, at the point where the 'priming read'
was introduced, any possibility of history distortions
was also eliminated.  This was true because all of the
'old' (zeroed) data will have been replaced with 'new'
data whenever a user finally calls get, select & reap.

Thus, any DELTA values will automatically reflect that
interval between 'new' and subsequent retrieval calls.

[ diskstats didn't actually employ a 1st time switch ]
[ like the others so we have changed a comment only. ]
[ but that module will retain something similar used ]
[ inside node_update whenever a new node is created. ]

Reference(s):
. priming read added to slabinfo
commit 5d5a52a380
. priming read added to diskstats
commit ecd64f4445
. priming read added to meminfo, stat, vmstat
commit 1a2b62c779

Signed-off-by: Jim Warner <james.warner@comcast.net>
This commit is contained in:
Jim Warner
2016-12-31 00:00:00 -06:00
committed by Craig Small
parent 904f4c3b35
commit e524e48138
5 changed files with 10 additions and 34 deletions
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proc/slabinfo.c
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@ -121,7 +121,6 @@ struct fetch_support {
struct slabinfo_info {
int refcount;
FILE *slabinfo_fp;
int slabinfo_was_read;
int nodes_alloc; /* nodes alloc()ed */
int nodes_used; /* nodes using alloced memory */
struct slabs_node *nodes; /* first slabnode of this list */
@ -495,10 +494,6 @@ static int read_slabinfo_failed (
else
return -ERANGE;
if (!info->slabinfo_was_read) {
memcpy(&info->slabs.old, &info->slabs.new, sizeof(struct slabs_summ));
info->slabinfo_was_read = 1;
}
return retval;
} // end: read_slabinfo_failed
@ -814,7 +809,8 @@ PROCPS_EXPORT int procps_slabinfo_new (
/* do a priming read here for the following potential benefits: |
1) see if that caller's permissions were sufficient (root) |
2) make delta results potentially useful, even if 1st time | */
2) make delta results potentially useful, even if 1st time |
3) elimnate need for history distortions 1st time 'switch' | */
if ((rc = read_slabinfo_failed(p))) {
procps_slabinfo_unref(&p);
return rc;