Re: [Lse-tech] Re: A common layer for Accounting packages

[Andrew Morton]

Kaigai Kohei <kaigai@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> In my understanding, what Andrew Morton said is "If target functionality can
>  implement in user space only, then we should not modify the kernel-tree".

fork, exec and exit upcalls sound pretty good to me.  As long as

a) they use the same common machinery and

b) they are next-to-zero cost if something is listening on the netlink
   socket but no accounting daemon is running.

Question is: is this sufficient for CSA?
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