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From: Erich Focht <efocht@ess.nec.de>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@digeo.com>
Cc: William Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.com>,
	linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Michael Hohnbaum <hohnbaum@us.ibm.com>,
	LSE <lse-tech@lists.sourceforge.net>
Subject: Re: per cpu time statistics
Date: Thu, 5 Dec 2002 11:57:29 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200212051157.29775.efocht@ess.nec.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3DEE3FAE.558649F5@digeo.com>

On Wednesday 04 December 2002 18:47, Andrew Morton wrote:
> It's mainly the big ia32 boxes which a) have a lot of CPUs and
> b) have a lot of memory and c) run a lot of tasks.  They're
> gasping for normal-zone memory.

There's a world beyond 32 bits, with plenty of normal-zone memory ;-)

> I'm half-inclined to just revert the whole thing and put the stats
> back, rather than adding yet another obscure config option.  But
> your patch is certainly very tidy...

My patch is basically the reverting patch plus changed ifdefs and a
bunch of Kconfig entries. I'd be happy to get this feature back, no
matter how it is implemented. I think it is necessary for performance
analysis on HT, NUMA, SMT systems.

Regards,
Erich
 



  parent reply	other threads:[~2002-12-05 10:52 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-12-04 12:43 per cpu time statistics Erich Focht
2002-12-04 17:47 ` Andrew Morton
2002-12-04 18:30   ` William Lee Irwin III
2002-12-05 10:57   ` Erich Focht [this message]
2002-12-05 11:14     ` William Lee Irwin III
2002-12-05 17:01       ` Bill Davidsen
2002-12-06 17:31 ` Michael Hohnbaum
2002-12-06 17:55   ` [Lse-tech] " William Lee Irwin III

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