From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751344AbWF3AQI (ORCPT ); Thu, 29 Jun 2006 20:16:08 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751338AbWF3AQG (ORCPT ); Thu, 29 Jun 2006 20:16:06 -0400 Received: from mtagate3.uk.ibm.com ([195.212.29.136]:13366 "EHLO mtagate3.uk.ibm.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751319AbWF3AQE (ORCPT ); Thu, 29 Jun 2006 20:16:04 -0400 Message-ID: <44A46D3B.6060703@watson.ibm.com> Date: Thu, 29 Jun 2006 20:15:55 -0400 From: Shailabh Nagar User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.7 (Windows/20050923) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Paul Jackson CC: akpm@osdl.org, Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu, jlan@engr.sgi.com, balbir@in.ibm.com, csturtiv@sgi.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [Patch][RFC] Disabling per-tgid stats on task exit in taskstats References: <44892610.6040001@watson.ibm.com> <4499D7CD.1020303@engr.sgi.com> <449C2181.6000007@watson.ibm.com> <20060623141926.b28a5fc0.akpm@osdl.org> <449C6620.1020203@engr.sgi.com> <20060623164743.c894c314.akpm@osdl.org> <449CAA78.4080902@watson.ibm.com> <20060623213912.96056b02.akpm@osdl.org> <449CD4B3.8020300@watson.ibm.com> <44A01A50.1050403@sgi.com> <20060626105548.edef4c64.akpm@osdl.org> <44A020CD.30903@watson.ibm.com> <20060626111249.7aece36e.akpm@osdl.org> <44A026ED.8080903@sgi.com> <20060626113959.839d72bc.akpm@osdl.org> <44A2F50D.8030306@engr.sgi.com> <20060628145341.529a61ab.akpm@osdl.org> <44A2FC72.9090407@engr.sgi.com> <20060629014050.d3bf0be4.pj@sgi.com> <200606291230.k5TCUg45030710@turing-police.cc.vt.edu> <20060629094408.360ac157.pj@sgi.com> <20060629110107.2e56310b.akpm@osdl.org> <20060629112642.66f35dd5.pj@sgi.com> <44A426DC.9090009@watson.ibm.com> <20060629124148.48d4c9ad.pj@sgi.com> <44A4492E.6090307@watson.ibm.com> <20060629152319.cfffe0d6.pj@sgi.com> In-Reply-To: <20060629152319.cfffe0d6.pj@sgi.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Paul Jackson wrote: > >If the collectors are grouped along natural job boundaries, there might >not be any need to combine multiple streams, hence no need for the >timestamps you mention. > Nope...as long as there are users who are using cpusets ONLY as a means of reducing sockets to listen to, timestamps will be needed. Userspace can of course, choose to combine or not.