Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 26 Aug 2003 18:18:07 -0700 | From | Andrew Morton <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] 2.6.0-test4 -- add context switch counters |
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Peter Chubb <peterc@gelato.unsw.edu.au> wrote: > > Currently, the context switch counters reported by getrusage() are > always zero. The appended patch adds fields to struct task_struct to > count context switches, and adds code to do the counting. > > The patch adds 4 longs to struct task struct, and a single addition to > the fast path in schedule().
OK... Why is this useful? A bit of googling doesn't show much interest in it.
What apps should be reporting this info? /usr/bin/time?
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