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From: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Luis Garces-Erice <lge@ieee.org>
Subject: [PATCH 6/8] docs: explain procs_running better
Date: Wed, 04 Nov 2009 16:04:52 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <12573794923083@xenotime.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1257379492822@xenotime.net>

From:	Luis Garces-Erice <lge@ieee.org>
Subject: Doc: better explanation of procs_running

the description in Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt of the
procs_running entry in /proc/stat is confusing (according to that
description, it looks as if procs_running could only be a number
between 0 and the number of CPUs).

Changed it to a more accurate description in the patch attached.

Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
---
 Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt |    4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

--- lnx-2632-rc6.orig/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt
+++ lnx-2632-rc6/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt
@@ -1088,8 +1088,8 @@ The "processes" line gives the number  o
 includes (but  is not limited  to) those  created by  calls to the  fork() and
 clone() system calls.
 
-The  "procs_running" line gives the  number of processes  currently running on
-CPUs.
+The "procs_running" line gives the total number of threads that are
+running or ready to run (i.e., the total number of runnable threads).
 
 The   "procs_blocked" line gives  the  number of  processes currently blocked,
 waiting for I/O to complete.


-- 


  parent reply	other threads:[~2009-11-05  0:11 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-11-05  0:04 [PATCH 1/8] sound: use KERN_WARNING, not KERN_WARN Randy Dunlap
2009-11-05  0:04 ` [PATCH 4/8] docbook: signal_pending has an argument Randy Dunlap
2009-11-05  0:04 ` [PATCH 8/8] docs: use misc-devices/ dir for drivers Randy Dunlap
2009-11-05  0:04 ` [PATCH 3/8] docs: use DMA_BIT_MASK Randy Dunlap
2009-11-05  0:04 ` [PATCH 7/8] docs: serial/tty, add to ldisc methods Randy Dunlap
2009-11-05  0:16   ` Alan Cox
2009-11-05  0:04 ` Randy Dunlap [this message]
2009-11-05  0:04 ` [PATCH 2/8] docs: use KERN_WARNING, not KERN_WARN Randy Dunlap
2009-11-05  8:10 ` [PATCH 1/8] sound: " Takashi Iwai

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