[RFC PATCH] getvalues(2) prototype

[Cyril Hrubis]

Hi!
> > If so, have you benchmarked lsof using this new interface?
> 
> Not yet.  Looked yesterday at both lsof and procps source code, and
> both are pretty complex and not easy to plug in a new interface.   But
> I've not yet given up...

Looking at lsof it seems to use fopen() and fgets() to parse various
proc files. I doubt that we can make the parsing singificantly faster
without completely rewriting the internals.

As for procps the readproc.c has file2str() function that does copy
whole proc files into a buffer with open() - read() - close(). It may be
reasonably easy to hook the new systall there and it will probably make
ps and top slightly faster.

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Cyril Hrubis
chrubis at suse.cz