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Date: Tue, 14 May 2002 09:54:14 -0700
From: William Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.com>
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Subject: Re: [RFC][PATCH] iowait statistics
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On Tue, 14 May 2002, William Lee Irwin III wrote:
>> This appears to be global across all cpu's. Maybe nr_iowait_tasks
>> should be accounted on a per-cpu basis, where

On Tue, May 14, 2002 at 01:36:00PM -0300, Rik van Riel wrote:
> While your proposal should work, somehow I doubt it's worth
> the complexity. It's just a statistic to help sysadmins ;)

I reserved judgment on that in order to present a possible mechanism.
I'm not sure it is either; we'll know it matters if sysadmins scream.


Cheers,
Bill