>Date: Sat, 04 Oct 2008 00:22:58 +1000
>To:
balbir@linux.vnet.ibm.com
>From: sena seneviratne <auntvini@cel.usyd.edu.au>
>Subject: Fwd: Re: New Metrics to measure Load average
>Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,arjan@infradead.org
>
>Dear Balbir Singh,
>
>This is one of the e-mails probably the last.
>By this time I have finshed 2.4.19 kernel.
>
>Thanks
>Sena Seneviratne
>Computer Engineering Lab
>School of Electrical and Information Engineering
>Sydney University
>Australia
>
>>Date: Tue, 20 Jun 2006 19:43:36 +1000
>>To:
balbir@in.ibm.com
>>From: sena seneviratne <auntvini@sedal.usyd.edu.au>
>>Subject: Re: New Metrics to measure Load average
>>
>>Dear Balbir Singh,
>>
>>Thanks for your reply and for your time.
>>
>>Then I will have to transfer from 2.4.18 to 2.6.18
>>
>>Ok Balbir I will do that.
>>
>>
>>Kind regards
>>Sena Seneviratne
>>Computer Engineering Lab
>>School of Electrical and Information Engineering
>>Sydney University
>>Australia
>>
>>
>>
>>At 02:29 PM 6/20/2006 +0530, you wrote:
>>>sena seneviratne wrote:
>>>>Dear Balbir Singh,
>>>>Thanks for your valuable reply.
>>>>Balbir It looks like that there is a general project where we all can
>>>>incorporate our work.
>>>
>>>
>>>Yes it is. It is currently in -mm and we hope that it makes it into
>>>2.6.18. The folder Documentation/accounting contains all the necessary
>>>details for you to build on top of delay stats.
>>>
>>>
>>>>--How do you calculate disk load? Is it the
>>>>---number of uninterruptible tasks in the system? Yes I started at
>>>>that point
>>>>
>>>>Few years ago the few additions I have explained, have been implemented
>>>>in linux 2.4.18 kernel at the Sydney Uni as part of a large research project.
>>>>Also few years ago I have posted many posts about this topic to this
>>>>forum. Few very experience hands were advising me in coding at that
>>>>time. To prove this I have all the e-mails with me. Yet then I had not
>>>>explained to this forum about the research project which involved
>>>>prediction algorithm as then it had not been published.
>>>>Thereafter few research papers have been published with regard to this.
>>>>1 in US.
>>>>Currently I am preparing the changes to a more recent linux patch. In
>>>>fact this is not hard as I have already changed the previous linux 2.4.18.
>>>
>>>Please cc us when you post the patches.
>>>
>>>>Before coming to do research I had worked as a Senior software engineer
>>>>in few companies and my last was LogicaCMG. Yet as far as the kernel
>>>>programming is concerned I will ask for your comments and advice.
>>>
>>>Let us know if you need any help for coding on top of taskstats.
>>>
>>>>Thanks
>>>>Sena Seneviratne
>>>>Computer Engineering Lab
>>>>School of Electrical and Information Engineering
>>>>Sydney University
>>>>Australia
