From: Srivatsa Vaddagiri <vatsa@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
To: "Paul Menage" <menage@google.com>
Cc: "Dhaval Giani" <dhaval@linux.vnet.ibm.com>,
balbir@linux.vnet.ibm.com, mingo@elte.hu,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl,
akpm@linux-foundation.org, skumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com
Subject: Re: [patch 2/2] sched: allow cpuacct stats to be reset
Date: Fri, 29 Feb 2008 11:32:30 +0530 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080229060230.GC3806@linux.vnet.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <6599ad830802282148g7f309995l450fc15074234cd7@mail.gmail.com>
On Thu, Feb 28, 2008 at 09:48:51PM -0800, Paul Menage wrote:
> Can I suggest, in order to be more generic, that this patch instead
> set each CPU's counter to the written value divided by the number of
> CPUs? (Either forgetting the remainder, or spreading it among the
> first few CPUs).
Paul,
When would you want to reset the counters to non-zero value?
What would be its usecase?
--
Regards,
vatsa
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-02-29 5:52 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-02-29 4:32 [patch 0/2] sched: cpuacct: minor cleanups and reset for cpuusage Dhaval Giani
2008-02-29 4:32 ` [patch 1/2] sched: cleanup cpuacct variable names Dhaval Giani
2008-03-07 4:58 ` Balbir Singh
2008-03-07 8:58 ` Ingo Molnar
2008-02-29 4:32 ` [patch 2/2] sched: allow cpuacct stats to be reset Dhaval Giani
2008-02-29 5:48 ` Paul Menage
2008-02-29 6:02 ` Srivatsa Vaddagiri [this message]
2008-02-29 6:04 ` Dhaval Giani
2008-02-29 10:08 ` Paul Menage
2008-02-29 10:38 ` Peter Zijlstra
2008-03-07 5:00 ` Balbir Singh
2008-03-07 8:59 ` Ingo Molnar
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