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Date: Tue, 30 Oct 2018 16:15:06 -0700
From: Davidlohr Bueso <dave@stgolabs.net>
To: Vito Caputo <vcaputo@pengaru.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] fs/proc: introduce /proc/stat2 file
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On Tue, 30 Oct 2018, Vito Caputo wrote:

>If you create /proc/stat2 to omit interrupts, do we then create
>/proc/stat3 to omit CPUs when just interrupts are of interest to the
>application running on a 256-cpu machine?

Be real, this is a bogus argument. As mentioned, stat2 is named as such
because it's a replacement for a better common case, not some random increment.

Thanks,
Davidlohr