Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261710AbUKIVuW (ORCPT ); Tue, 9 Nov 2004 16:50:22 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261714AbUKIVuW (ORCPT ); Tue, 9 Nov 2004 16:50:22 -0500 Received: from mail19.syd.optusnet.com.au ([211.29.132.200]:36837 "EHLO mail19.syd.optusnet.com.au") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261710AbUKIVuO (ORCPT ); Tue, 9 Nov 2004 16:50:14 -0500 Message-ID: <41913B75.1050500@kolivas.org> Date: Wed, 10 Nov 2004 08:49:41 +1100 From: Con Kolivas User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.9 (X11/20041103) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Herbert Poetzl Cc: Patrick Mau , Andrew Morton , Linux Kernel Subject: Re: Workaround for wrapping loadaverage References: <20041108001932.GA16641@oscar.prima.de> <20041108012707.1e141772.akpm@osdl.org> <20041108102553.GA31980@oscar.prima.de> <20041108155051.53c11fff.akpm@osdl.org> <20041109004335.GA1822@oscar.prima.de> <20041109185103.GE29661@mail.13thfloor.at> In-Reply-To: <20041109185103.GE29661@mail.13thfloor.at> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.86.1.0 X-Enigmail-Supports: pgp-inline, pgp-mime Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="------------enigFA1AEB4C5C19C470ADA788D3" Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1347 Lines: 38 This is an OpenPGP/MIME signed message (RFC 2440 and 3156) --------------enigFA1AEB4C5C19C470ADA788D3 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Herbert Poetzl wrote: > but I agree that a higher resolution would be a good > idea ... also doing the calculation when the number > of running/uninterruptible processes has changed would > be a good idea ... This could get very expensive. A modern cpu can do about 700,000 context switches per second of a real task with the current linux kernel so I'd suggest not doing this. Cheers, Con --------------enigFA1AEB4C5C19C470ADA788D3 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: OpenPGP digital signature Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFBkTt1ZUg7+tp6mRURAgK0AJ49jAGM2yMf6Cn6AOyVejHIKAGcmwCbBWtd j/p7dkjDgpULdxgkGXb7wUg= =WgSb -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --------------enigFA1AEB4C5C19C470ADA788D3-- - 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/