Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 24 Sep 2002 13:47:38 +0200 (CEST) | From | Tim Schmielau <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] 32bit wraps and USER_HZ [64 bit counters], kernel 2.5.37 |
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On Tue, 24 Sep 2002, Rolf Fokkens wrote: > On Monday 23 September 2002 04:36, William Lee Irwin III wrote: > > - unsigned long utime, stime, cutime, cstime; > > - unsigned long start_time; > > - long per_cpu_utime[NR_CPUS], per_cpu_stime[NR_CPUS]; > > > > Hmm. Isn't task_t bloated enough already? I'd rather remove them than > > make them 64-bit. > > Since nobody else asks this question: > > Do you mean to leave out process statistics?
We don't need to leave out process statistics completely, but per-CPU per-process statistics indeed looks like overkill.
Tim
P.S.: Some work with respect to cleaning up interfaces of 32 bit jiffies has gone into -dj already, but I'm still waiting for the next -dj release to sync up.
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