Date: Fri, 29 Feb 2008 11:32:30 +0530
From: Srivatsa Vaddagiri <vatsa@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
To: "Paul Menage" <menage@google.com>
Cc: "Dhaval Giani" <dhaval@linux.vnet.ibm.com>, balbir@linux.vnet.ibm.com,
       mingo@elte.hu, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl,
       akpm@linux-foundation.org, skumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com
Subject: Re: [patch 2/2] sched: allow cpuacct stats to be reset
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On Thu, Feb 28, 2008 at 09:48:51PM -0800, Paul Menage wrote:
> Can I suggest, in order to be more generic, that this patch instead
> set each CPU's counter to the written value divided by the number of
> CPUs? (Either forgetting the remainder, or spreading it among the
> first few CPUs).

Paul,
	When would you want to reset the counters to non-zero value?
What would be its usecase?

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Regards,
vatsa
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