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From: Benjamin LaHaise <bcrl@kvack.org>
To: David Wragg <david@wragg.org>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] procfs: export context switch counts in /proc/*/stat
Date: Tue, 19 Dec 2006 01:39:55 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20061219063955.GN1104@kvack.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87zm9k228f.fsf@wragg.org>

On Mon, Dec 18, 2006 at 11:50:08PM +0000, David Wragg wrote:
> This patch (against 2.6.19/2.6.19.1) adds the four context switch
> values (voluntary context switches, involuntary context switches, and
> the same values accumulated from terminated child processes) to the
> end of /proc/*/stat, similarly to min_flt, maj_flt and the time used
> values.

Please put these into new files, as the stat files in /proc are 
horribly overloaded and have always been somewhat problematic 
when it comes to changing how things are reported due to internal 
changes to the kernel.  Cheers,

		-ben
-- 
"Time is of no importance, Mr. President, only life is important."
Don't Email: <dont@kvack.org>.

  reply	other threads:[~2006-12-19  6:46 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-12-18 23:50 [PATCH] procfs: export context switch counts in /proc/*/stat David Wragg
2006-12-19  6:39 ` Benjamin LaHaise [this message]
2006-12-19 11:47   ` David Wragg
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2006-12-20  5:40 Albert Cahalan
2006-12-20 13:20 ` David Wragg
2006-12-20 13:48   ` Arjan van de Ven
2006-12-20 14:38     ` David Wragg
2006-12-20 14:51       ` Arjan van de Ven
2006-12-20 15:13         ` David Wragg
2006-12-20 17:36   ` Albert Cahalan
2006-12-24  1:40     ` David Wragg
2006-12-21  6:02 Al Boldi

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