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Date: Fri, 29 Jul 2011 21:15:42 +0200
Subject: How to get cpu utilization through code with least overhead?
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On Thu, Jul 28, 2011 at 04:56:16PM -0700, Vaibhav Jain wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Is there any other way to do this? If I need to write a kernel module that
> needs to get cpu utilization
> should I still use proc/stat ? Is there a kernel function that can be used
> in a module ?

To get the information that's shown in /proc/stat, I'd suggest having a
look at fs/proc/stat.c in the kernel tree.

HTH,
	Jonathan Neusch?fer