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From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
To: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Chris Friesen <chris.friesen@genband.com>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: RFC: /proc/<pid>/sched should contain cumulative data for all threads in process
Date: Tue, 8 Feb 2011 16:14:34 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110208151434.GA20357@elte.hu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1297172742.13327.102.camel@laptop>


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

> Very much depends on what is wanted, but most of the stuff inside those files is 
> very specific to the implementation and pinning any of that to an ABI is like 
> silly.

Why? If the implementation changes then those values lose meaning and the most 
correct value to report is *zero* and that's it.

That's how such things were always done, it was never a problem in the past 15 
years. Why should it start being a problem suddenly?

Thanks,

	Ingo

  reply	other threads:[~2011-02-08 15:14 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-02-07 22:29 RFC: /proc/<pid>/sched should contain cumulative data for all threads in process Chris Friesen
2011-02-08  9:21 ` Peter Zijlstra
2011-02-08 12:11   ` Ingo Molnar
2011-02-08 13:45     ` Peter Zijlstra
2011-02-08 15:14       ` Ingo Molnar [this message]
2011-02-09 17:28       ` Chris Friesen

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