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From: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Subject: Re: linux-next: manual merge of the cputime tree
Date: Tue, 25 Nov 2008 12:00:24 +0100
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On Tue, 2008-11-25 at 11:28 +0100, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> On Tue, 2008-11-25 at 11:15 +0100, Martin Schwidefsky wrote:
> > On Tue, 2008-11-25 at 11:06 +0100, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> > > Why does s390 do its own cpu accounting?
> > 
> > Is that a trick question? I invented the cputime accounting specifically
> > for s390 because it is a virtual architecture and the standard cpu
> > accounting numbers are just useless.
> 
> Nah, just general ignorance brought on by the mondays on a tuesday ;-)

Ah, I usually have this on mondays ..

> Right, makes sense, is it shared with all other virt* folks out there?

Yes, the other virtual architectures have started to use the interface
as well.

-- 
blue skies,
  Martin.

"Reality continues to ruin my life." - Calvin.