From: William Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.com>
To: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC] shrink task_struct by removing per_cpu utime and stime
Date: Tue, 16 Jul 2002 02:03:44 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20020716090344.GB1096@holomorphy.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1026814266.1688.2.camel@irongate.swansea.linux.org.uk>
On Tue, 2002-07-16 at 08:09, William Lee Irwin III wrote:
>> These statistics severely bloat the task_struct and nothing in
>> userspace can rely on them as they're conditional on CONFIG_SMP. If
>> anyone is using them (or just wants them around), please speak up.
On Tue, Jul 16, 2002 at 11:11:06AM +0100, Alan Cox wrote:
> User space can rely on them because it can check if the data is present.
> Some of the graphical process monitors dump per cpu utime/stime. Its
> sometimes a good way to cringe at our SMP balancing algorithms in 2.4
If that's a "no" I can deal with it. I'm just cringing at its space
consumption and I guess we all know how oversensitive I am to that =).
Cheers,
Bill
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-07-16 9:01 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-07-16 7:09 [RFC] shrink task_struct by removing per_cpu utime and stime William Lee Irwin III
2002-07-16 10:11 ` Alan Cox
2002-07-16 9:03 ` William Lee Irwin III [this message]
2002-07-16 10:12 ` Alan Cox
2002-07-16 9:05 ` William Lee Irwin III
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