From: Rakib Mullick <rakib.mullick@gmail.com>
To: mingo@elte.hu, peterz@infradead.org
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH] sched: Update scheduler stat documentation.
Date: Thu, 12 Jan 2012 23:27:02 +0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1326389222.9115.2.camel@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
/proc/schedstat's second field reflect to # of time context switch happened not # of times switched to the expired queue.
Signed-off-by: Rakib Mullick <rakib.mullick@gmail.com>
---
diff --git a/Documentation/scheduler/sched-stats.txt b/Documentation/scheduler/sched-stats.txt
index 1cd5d51..7d8e12c 100644
--- a/Documentation/scheduler/sched-stats.txt
+++ b/Documentation/scheduler/sched-stats.txt
@@ -38,7 +38,8 @@ First field is a sched_yield() statistic:
1) # of times sched_yield() was called
Next three are schedule() statistics:
- 2) # of times we switched to the expired queue and reused it
+ 2) # of times context switch happened. This field is not utilized these
+ days but kept for holding userspace tools integrity.
3) # of times schedule() was called
4) # of times schedule() left the processor idle
next reply other threads:[~2012-01-12 17:28 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-01-12 17:27 Rakib Mullick [this message]
2012-01-16 7:56 ` [PATCH] sched: Update scheduler stat documentation Ingo Molnar
2012-01-16 8:22 ` Rakib Mullick
2012-01-16 8:36 ` Ingo Molnar
2012-01-16 16:51 ` Rakib Mullick
2012-01-17 9:50 ` Ingo Molnar
2012-01-17 15:33 ` Rakib Mullick
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