Date: Thu, 4 Nov 1999 20:10:21 -0800 From: Arun Sharma <adsharma@home.com> To: Chris Costello <chris@calldei.com> Cc: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au>, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: kstat - an API for gathering kernel stats Message-ID: <19991104201021.A2302@home.com> In-Reply-To: <19991104213102.V602@holly.calldei.com>; from Chris Costello on Thu, Nov 04, 1999 at 09:31:02PM -0600 References: <19991104140551.A1331@home.com> <199911050230.SAA00664@dingo.cdrom.com> <19991104192252.A2194@home.com> <19991104213102.V602@holly.calldei.com>
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On Thu, Nov 04, 1999 at 09:31:02PM -0600, Chris Costello wrote: > On Thu, Nov 04, 1999, Arun Sharma wrote: > > Can a loadable module, say a network driver register variables with > > sysctl ? Can sysctl itself be made a loadable module ? As for the speed, > > a.) Yes. I don't see any examples in sys/modules. The SYSCTL_INT macros eventually expands to DATA_SET which puts certain data in a different ELF section. In other words, sysctl seems to be relying on physical adjacency of certain structures after linkage is done. -Arun To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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