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From: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
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Subject: Re: [Lse-tech] [Patch 8/8] /proc export of aggregated block I/O delays
Date: Sat, 22 Apr 2006 09:46:19 +0200
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On Saturday 22 April 2006 04:42, Shailabh Nagar wrote:
> Changelog
> Fixed comments by akpm
> - use __u64 for delayacct_blkio_ticks() return type
> - redundant check for tsk->delays in __delayacct_blkio_ticks()

I think these basic statistics in /proc are quite useful. Hopefully
top etc. would learn quickly about them too so that normal 
people can actually make use of it.

-Andi