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From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
To: Jan Glauber <jang@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	vatsa@linux.vnet.ibm.com, mschwid2@linux.vnet.ibm.com,
	efault@gmx.de, dmitry.adamushko@gmail.com, paulus@samba.org,
	anton@samba.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] virtual sched_clock() for s390
Date: Thu, 19 Jul 2007 21:38:40 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070719193840.GA29523@elte.hu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1184872821.5516.10.camel@localhost.localdomain>


* Jan Glauber <jang@linux.vnet.ibm.com> wrote:

> > still, CFS needs time measurement across idle periods as well, for 
> > another purpose: to be able to do precise task statistics for /proc. 
> > (for top, ps, etc.) So it's still true that sched_clock() should 
> > include idle periods too.
> 
> I'm not sure, s390 already has an implemetation for precise accounting 
> in the architecture code, does CFS also improve accounting data?

what kind of precise accounting does s390 have in the architecture code? 
CFS changes task (and load) accounting to be sched_clock() driven in 
essence.

	Ingo

  reply	other threads:[~2007-07-19 19:39 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-07-19 10:57 [PATCH] virtual sched_clock() for s390 Jan Glauber
2007-07-19 15:29 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2007-07-19 15:48   ` Srivatsa Vaddagiri
2007-07-19 16:00   ` Ingo Molnar
2007-07-19 19:20     ` Jan Glauber
2007-07-19 19:38       ` Ingo Molnar [this message]
2007-07-19 21:07         ` Jan Glauber
2007-07-20  1:01     ` Paul Mackerras
2007-07-20  6:03       ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2007-07-20  7:22       ` Ingo Molnar
2007-07-23  9:15         ` Jan Glauber
2007-07-23 13:24           ` Martin Schwidefsky

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