From: William Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.com>
To: Tim Schmielau <tim@physik3.uni-rostock.de>
Cc: Rolf Fokkens <fokkensr@fokkensr.vertis.nl>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] 32bit wraps and USER_HZ [64 bit counters], kernel 2.5.37
Date: Tue, 24 Sep 2002 04:50:25 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20020924115025.GD3530@holomorphy.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.33.0209241342470.4261-100000@gans.physik3.uni-rostock.de>
On Tue, 24 Sep 2002, Rolf Fokkens wrote:
>> Since nobody else asks this question:
>> Do you mean to leave out process statistics?
On Tue, Sep 24, 2002 at 01:47:38PM +0200, Tim Schmielau wrote:
> 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.
The per-cpu per-process stats are the only ones I suggest removing.
NR_CPUS can get large enough to cause a significant amount of bloat.
Cheers,
Bill
prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-09-24 11:45 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-09-22 22:07 [PATCH] 32bit wraps and USER_HZ [64 bit counters], kernel 2.5.37 Rolf Fokkens
2002-09-23 2:36 ` William Lee Irwin III
2002-09-23 22:08 ` Rolf Fokkens
2002-09-23 22:13 ` Robert Love
2002-09-24 7:04 ` Rolf Fokkens
2002-09-24 7:11 ` William Lee Irwin III
2002-09-24 11:47 ` Tim Schmielau
2002-09-24 11:50 ` William Lee Irwin III [this message]
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