Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Tue, 24 Sep 2002 07:42:33 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Tue, 24 Sep 2002 07:42:32 -0400 Received: from gans.physik3.uni-rostock.de ([139.30.44.2]:40102 "EHLO gans.physik3.uni-rostock.de") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Tue, 24 Sep 2002 07:42:32 -0400 Date: Tue, 24 Sep 2002 13:47:38 +0200 (CEST) From: Tim Schmielau To: Rolf Fokkens cc: William Lee Irwin III , Subject: Re: [PATCH] 32bit wraps and USER_HZ [64 bit counters], kernel 2.5.37 In-Reply-To: <200209232208.g8NM8bN05831@fokkensr.vertis.nl> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 976 Lines: 27 On Tue, 24 Sep 2002, Rolf Fokkens wrote: > On Monday 23 September 2002 04:36, William Lee Irwin III wrote: > > - unsigned long utime, stime, cutime, cstime; > > - unsigned long start_time; > > - long per_cpu_utime[NR_CPUS], per_cpu_stime[NR_CPUS]; > > > > Hmm. Isn't task_t bloated enough already? I'd rather remove them than > > make them 64-bit. > > Since nobody else asks this question: > > Do you mean to leave out process statistics? We don't need to leave out process statistics completely, but per-CPU per-process statistics indeed looks like overkill. Tim P.S.: Some work with respect to cleaning up interfaces of 32 bit jiffies has gone into -dj already, but I'm still waiting for the next -dj release to sync up. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/