Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 13 May 2003 16:13:04 -0400 (EDT) | From | Bill Davidsen <> | Subject | Re: 2.5.69-mm3 |
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On Fri, 9 May 2003, Dipankar Sarma wrote:
> I am wondering what we should do with this patch. The RCU stats display > the #s of RCU requests and actual updates on each CPU. On a normal system > they don't mean much to a sysadmin, so I am not sure if it is the right > thing to include this feature. OTOH, it is extremely useful to detect > potential memory leaks happening due to, say a CPU looping in > kernel (and RCU not happening consequently). Will a CONFIG_RCU_DEBUG > make it more palatable for mainline ?
Are there similar things, inplace or in patches? Perhaps a menu section for kernel metrics and a nice little niche in /proc to display them? Things like this are helpful when tuning a kernel, but perhaps not wanted for the minimalist (like embedded) configs.
-- bill davidsen <davidsen@tmr.com> CTO, TMR Associates, Inc Doing interesting things with little computers since 1979.
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