Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Thu, 5 Dec 2002 05:52:00 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Thu, 5 Dec 2002 05:51:40 -0500 Received: from ophelia.ess.nec.de ([193.141.139.8]:27285 "EHLO ophelia.ess.nec.de") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id convert rfc822-to-8bit; Thu, 5 Dec 2002 05:50:09 -0500 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII From: Erich Focht To: Andrew Morton Subject: Re: per cpu time statistics Date: Thu, 5 Dec 2002 11:57:29 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.4.3 Cc: William Lee Irwin III , linux-kernel , Michael Hohnbaum , LSE References: <200212041343.39734.efocht@ess.nec.de> <3DEE3FAE.558649F5@digeo.com> In-Reply-To: <3DEE3FAE.558649F5@digeo.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT Message-Id: <200212051157.29775.efocht@ess.nec.de> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 972 Lines: 26 On Wednesday 04 December 2002 18:47, Andrew Morton wrote: > It's mainly the big ia32 boxes which a) have a lot of CPUs and > b) have a lot of memory and c) run a lot of tasks. They're > gasping for normal-zone memory. There's a world beyond 32 bits, with plenty of normal-zone memory ;-) > I'm half-inclined to just revert the whole thing and put the stats > back, rather than adding yet another obscure config option. But > your patch is certainly very tidy... My patch is basically the reverting patch plus changed ifdefs and a bunch of Kconfig entries. I'd be happy to get this feature back, no matter how it is implemented. I think it is necessary for performance analysis on HT, NUMA, SMT systems. Regards, Erich - 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/