From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753650AbXDOUKj (ORCPT ); Sun, 15 Apr 2007 16:10:39 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753645AbXDOUKi (ORCPT ); Sun, 15 Apr 2007 16:10:38 -0400 Received: from gprs189-60.eurotel.cz ([160.218.189.60]:4346 "EHLO spitz.ucw.cz" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753643AbXDOUKi (ORCPT ); Sun, 15 Apr 2007 16:10:38 -0400 Date: Sun, 15 Apr 2007 20:10:24 +0000 From: Pavel Machek To: William Lee Irwin III Cc: Maxim Uvarov , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, davidsen@tmr.com, randy.dunlap@oracle.com, dada1@cosmosbay.com, Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu, jesper.juhl@gmail.com Subject: Re: Performance Stats: Kernel patch Message-ID: <20070415201024.GB12012@ucw.cz> References: <461A4C1E.3070309@ru.mvista.com> <20070415094706.GB10097@ucw.cz> <20070415102157.GB2986@holomorphy.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20070415102157.GB2986@holomorphy.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.9i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Hi! On Sun 2007-04-15 03:21:57, William Lee Irwin III wrote: > At some point in the past, someone's attribution was stripped from: Maxim's. > >> + return buffer + sprintf(buffer, "Nvcsw:\t%lu\n" > >> + "Nivcsw:\t%lu\n", > >> + p->nvcsw, > >> + p->nivcsw); > > On Sun, Apr 15, 2007 at 09:47:07AM +0000, Pavel Machek wrote: > > We don't encrypt variable names like this. > > nvcsw and nivcsw are conventional variable names for these quantities. I can't decipher them and would not want users see them in /proc. Would nonvoluntary_ctxt_switch be that much worse? -- (english) http://www.livejournal.com/~pavelmachek (cesky, pictures) http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~pavel/picture/horses/blog.html