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Peter Williams wrote: > Albert Cahalan wrote: <snip> >> Nothing can rely on it existing at all, so a name change would >> solve the problem of apps getting confused. >> >> BTW, permill is not per-million, it is per-thousand. >> Per-million or per-billion would be fine as long as >> it doesn't overflow. > > > OK. Since SleepAVG does not seem to be entrenched in people's > expectations and because of the fact that the value calculated from our > usage rates are not really valid (see above), I propose that we change > this field's name to CPUrate and report the CPU usage rate directly in > permill (unless there are violent objections). I've analysed the arithmetic and think that we can safely go to 6 decimal places so I'll make this Per-million. The change should appear in the patches to the 2.6.4 kernel when it is available. Peter -- Dr Peter Williams, Chief Scientist peterw@aurema.com Aurema Pty Limited Tel:+61 2 9698 2322 PO Box 305, Strawberry Hills NSW 2012, Australia Fax:+61 2 9699 9174 79 Myrtle Street, Chippendale NSW 2008, Australia http://www.aurema.com - 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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