From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG  Thu Jan 17 22:15:56 2013
Return-Path: <owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG>
Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org
Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [8.8.178.115])
 by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AB16BD78
 for <freebsd-current@freebsd.org>; Thu, 17 Jan 2013 22:15:56 +0000 (UTC)
 (envelope-from bright@mu.org)
Received: from elvis.mu.org (elvis.mu.org [192.203.228.196])
 by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9A95D8B5
 for <freebsd-current@freebsd.org>; Thu, 17 Jan 2013 22:15:56 +0000 (UTC)
Received: from unknowna826d93748ea.att.net
 (99-127-230-127.lightspeed.sntcca.sbcglobal.net [99.127.230.127])
 by elvis.mu.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 240011A3C33
 for <freebsd-current@freebsd.org>; Thu, 17 Jan 2013 14:15:56 -0800 (PST)
Message-ID: <50F87819.3060605@mu.org>
Date: Thu, 17 Jan 2013 14:15:53 -0800
From: Alfred Perlstein <bright@mu.org>
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.7;
 rv:17.0) Gecko/20130107 Thunderbird/17.0.2
MIME-Version: 1.0
To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Adjust 'ps H' to include kthread names by default
References: <201301171622.09624.jhb@freebsd.org>
In-Reply-To: <201301171622.09624.jhb@freebsd.org>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org
X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14
Precedence: list
List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current
 <freebsd-current.freebsd.org>
List-Unsubscribe: <http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/options/freebsd-current>, 
 <mailto:freebsd-current-request@freebsd.org?subject=unsubscribe>
List-Archive: <http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-current>
List-Post: <mailto:freebsd-current@freebsd.org>
List-Help: <mailto:freebsd-current-request@freebsd.org?subject=help>
List-Subscribe: <http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current>,
 <mailto:freebsd-current-request@freebsd.org?subject=subscribe>
X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 17 Jan 2013 22:15:56 -0000

On 1/17/13 1:22 PM, John Baldwin wrote:
> Running 'ps axH' on a current system results in a lot of kthreads with not
> very useful names (unless you add -c):
>
>    PID  TT  STAT      TIME COMMAND
>      0  ??  DLs    1:09.52 [kernel]
>      0  ??  DLs    0:00.00 [kernel]
>      0  ??  DLs    0:00.00 [kernel]
>      0  ??  DLs    0:00.00 [kernel]
>      0  ??  DLs    0:00.00 [kernel]
>      0  ??  DLs    0:00.00 [kernel]
>      0  ??  DLs    0:00.00 [kernel]
>      0  ??  DLs    0:03.82 [kernel]
>      0  ??  DLs    1:15.14 [kernel]
>      0  ??  DLs    0:00.00 [kernel]
>      0  ??  DLs   39:24.55 [kernel]
>      0  ??  DLs    0:00.04 [kernel]
>
> This patch changes this to:
>
>    PID  TT  STAT      TIME COMMAND
>      0  ??  DLs    1:09.53 [kernel/swapper]
>      0  ??  DLs    0:00.00 [kernel/firmware tas]
>      0  ??  DLs    0:00.00 [kernel/ffs_trim tas]
>      0  ??  DLs    0:00.00 [kernel/acpi_task_0]
>      0  ??  DLs    0:00.00 [kernel/acpi_task_1]
>      0  ??  DLs    0:00.00 [kernel/acpi_task_2]
>      0  ??  DLs    0:00.00 [kernel/aiod_bio tas]
>      0  ??  DLs    0:03.82 [kernel/thread taskq]
>      0  ??  DLs    1:15.19 [kernel/nvidia taskq]
>      0  ??  DLs    0:00.00 [kernel/kqueue taskq]
>      0  ??  DLs   39:26.82 [kernel/em0 taskq]
>      0  ??  DLs    0:00.04 [kernel/mca taskq]
Nice!   Looks good.

-Alfred