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From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
To: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] lockstat: documentation update
Date: Fri, 5 Sep 2008 10:12:41 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080905081241.GE12409@elte.hu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1220450457.8609.150.camel@twins>


* Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> wrote:

> Christoph noted that the documentation doesn't tell in what unit the
> lockstat times are reported, ammend this.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>

applied the commit below to tip/core/locking, thanks!

	Ingo

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>From cdad72207d164569cb4bf647eb824a7f93e8d388 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Date: Wed, 3 Sep 2008 16:00:57 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] lockstat: documentation update

Christoph noted that the documentation doesn't tell in what unit the
lockstat times are reported, ammend this.

Reported-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
---
 Documentation/lockstat.txt |    1 +
 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Documentation/lockstat.txt b/Documentation/lockstat.txt
index 4ba4664..02f36f5 100644
--- a/Documentation/lockstat.txt
+++ b/Documentation/lockstat.txt
@@ -100,6 +100,7 @@ The first lock (05-10) is a read/write lock, and shows two lines above the
 short separator. The contention points don't match the column descriptors,
 they have two: contentions and [<IP>] symbol.
 
+The integer part of the time values is in us.
 
 View the top contending locks:
 

      reply	other threads:[~2008-09-05  8:13 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-09-03 14:00 [PATCH] lockstat: documentation update Peter Zijlstra
2008-09-05  8:12 ` Ingo Molnar [this message]

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