From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932272AbWGGW7e (ORCPT ); Fri, 7 Jul 2006 18:59:34 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932273AbWGGW7d (ORCPT ); Fri, 7 Jul 2006 18:59:33 -0400 Received: from smtp.osdl.org ([65.172.181.4]:63659 "EHLO smtp.osdl.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932272AbWGGW7d (ORCPT ); Fri, 7 Jul 2006 18:59:33 -0400 Date: Fri, 7 Jul 2006 16:00:00 -0700 From: Andrew Morton To: Matt Helsley Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Process events: Fix biarch compatibility Message-Id: <20060707160000.45b9a9f0.akpm@osdl.org> In-Reply-To: <1152308332.21787.2178.camel@stark> References: <1152308332.21787.2178.camel@stark> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 1.0.0 (GTK+ 1.2.10; i386-vine-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Matt Helsley wrote: > > Andrew, I'd like to revise my request and shoot for eventual inclusion > in 2.6.18 if it's not too much to ask. What do you think? I'm not sure what you're referring to here. The per-task-delay-accounting patches I'd like to get into 2.6.18, yes. We've been dicking around for *years* with enhanced system accounting requirements and we now seem to have a roughly-agreed-upon way of doing that. I think we just need to get it in there and get people using it for their various accounting needs. I was planning on getting all this into -rc1 but then we got derailed by the 1000-cpus-doing-1000-exits-per-second problem. The task-watchers patches I really like - it fixes the problem of more and more subsystems adding their little own little hooks all into the same places. But I think it's much less urgent than per-task-delay-accounting and, given that (afaik) we haven't yet resolved whether task-watchers will use a single notifier chain or one per event, I'm inclined to hold that back until 2.6.19.