Date: Wed, 18 Mar 2009 08:59:08 +0900
From: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
To: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
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       Dhaval Giani <dhaval@linux.vnet.ibm.com>,
       Paul Menage <menage@google.com>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Subject: Re: [PATCH -tip] cpuacct: Make cpuacct hierarchy walk in
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On Tue, 17 Mar 2009 14:26:01 +0100
Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> wrote:

> On Tue, 2009-03-17 at 18:42 +0530, Balbir Singh wrote:
> 
> > I'd like to get the patches in -tip and see the results, I would
> > recommend using percpu_counter_sum() while reading the data as an
> > enhancement to this patch. If user space does not overwhelm with a lot
> > of reads, sum would work out better.
> 
> You trust userspace? I'd rather not.
> 
hehe, I don't trust, either.
BTW, is there anyone wants "remove rq->lock" patch ?
If yes, I'll dig the patch from my graveyard.

Thanks,
-Kame

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