Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261693AbUJYIZL (ORCPT ); Mon, 25 Oct 2004 04:25:11 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261694AbUJYITX (ORCPT ); Mon, 25 Oct 2004 04:19:23 -0400 Received: from smtp209.mail.sc5.yahoo.com ([216.136.130.117]:22699 "HELO smtp209.mail.sc5.yahoo.com") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S261710AbUJYHjb (ORCPT ); Mon, 25 Oct 2004 03:39:31 -0400 Message-ID: <417CADAC.5060608@yahoo.com.au> Date: Mon, 25 Oct 2004 17:39:24 +1000 From: Nick Piggin User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.2) Gecko/20040820 Debian/1.7.2-4 X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Denis Vlasenko CC: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Paulo Marques , Andrew Morton , Linus Torvalds Subject: Re: [PATCH] reduce top(1) CPU usage by an order of magnitude References: <200410251020.01932.vda@port.imtp.ilyichevsk.odessa.ua> In-Reply-To: <200410251020.01932.vda@port.imtp.ilyichevsk.odessa.ua> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 524 Lines: 16 Denis Vlasenko wrote: > Patch is not mine, Paulo Marques > wrote it. > > I tested in on 2.6.9-rc2. top(1) CPU usage went from ~40% to ~4% > (yes, test box is a rather old piece of junk). > > The patch applies cleanly to 2.6.9. Patch is already merged. - 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/