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From: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
To: balbir@in.ibm.com
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, lse-tech@lists.sourceforge.net,
	jlan@engr.sgi.com
Subject: Re: [Patch 2/8] Sync block I/O and swapin delay collection
Date: Tue, 09 May 2006 15:57:06 +1000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <44602F32.1060909@yahoo.com.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20060509054556.GG784@in.ibm.com>

Balbir Singh wrote:

>
>I expect/hope that the CONFIG will be turned on. There is a boot
>option (called delayacct) to enable/disable the statistics collection.
>Once turned on and enabled, all tasks will be filling in/using the statistics.
>

Well they'll be _collecting_ the stats, yes. Will they really be using
them for anything?

If you make the whole thing much lighter weight for tasks which aren't
using the accounting, you have a better chance of people turning the
CONFIG option on.

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  reply	other threads:[~2006-05-09  7:42 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-05-02  6:14 [Patch 2/8] Sync block I/O and swapin delay collection Balbir Singh
2006-05-08 21:19 ` Andrew Morton
2006-05-09  3:53   ` Balbir Singh
2006-05-09  4:23     ` Nick Piggin
2006-05-09  5:45       ` Balbir Singh
2006-05-09  5:57         ` Nick Piggin [this message]
2006-05-09  8:06           ` Balbir Singh
2006-05-09  8:20             ` Nick Piggin
2006-05-09 17:27               ` Balbir Singh
2006-05-10  0:15                 ` Nick Piggin
2006-05-10 10:20   ` [PATCH][delayacct] Add comments on units for the delay fields (was Re: [Patch 2/8] Sync block I/O and swapin delay collection) Balbir Singh
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2006-04-22  2:16 [Patch 0/8] per-task delay accounting Shailabh Nagar
2006-04-22  2:29 ` [Patch 2/8] Sync block I/O and swapin delay collection Shailabh Nagar

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