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On Mon, 1 Apr 2002, Albert D. Cahalan wrote: > Tim Schmielau writes: > > > I'd still prefer to export only 32 bit of user, nice, and system. This > > way they overflow in a clearly defined way - the 32 bits we export are > > exact, only the higher bits are missing. > > The higher bits are absolutely required. At least on Alpha (with HZ=1024) I definitely agree. At HZ=100 I'm a bit uncertain. What I don't want is exporting higher bits that sometimes wrap and sometimes not. > > There are ways to push the work of doing a 64-bit counter out into the > proc filesystem and a timer that goes off every 31 bits worth of time. > I've posted an explanation before; you may search for it if you like. > Like I did for idle time in the >497 days uptime patch? Then I'll include a chunk for user, nice, and system time in the next version and we can see if Linus takes it. Tim - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ | ||||||||||||
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