From: Robert Love <rml@tech9.net>
To: Rolf Fokkens <fokkensr@fokkensr.vertis.nl>
Cc: William Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.com>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] 32bit wraps and USER_HZ [64 bit counters], kernel 2.5.37
Date: 23 Sep 2002 18:13:15 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1032819194.25745.241.camel@phantasy> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200209232208.g8NM8bN05831@fokkensr.vertis.nl>
On Mon, 2002-09-23 at 18:08, 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?
Yes, I think he does.
Having arrays statically created at NR_CPUS inside the task_struct is
just gross. Especially with NR_CPUS=32. That is 128 bytes each! Now
with your changes, it is 256 bytes each!
Sacrifice them to the gods of bloat.
Robert Love
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-09-23 22:09 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 [this message]
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
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