From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S934078AbXGTH4e (ORCPT ); Fri, 20 Jul 2007 03:56:34 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1758076AbXGTH40 (ORCPT ); Fri, 20 Jul 2007 03:56:26 -0400 Received: from outbound-fra.frontbridge.com ([62.209.45.174]:43481 "EHLO outbound3-fra-R.bigfish.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1758341AbXGTH4Y (ORCPT ); Fri, 20 Jul 2007 03:56:24 -0400 X-BigFish: VP X-MS-Exchange-Organization-Antispam-Report: OrigIP: 139.95.251.8;Service: EHS X-Server-Uuid: 89466532-923C-4A88-82C1-66ACAA0041DF From: "Joachim Deguara" Organization: AMD To: "Nick Piggin" Subject: Re: [PATCH] Documentation update sched-stat.txt Date: Fri, 20 Jul 2007 09:56:03 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.7 cc: ricklind@us.ibm.com, "lkml List" References: <200707181111.31254.joachim.deguara@amd.com> <20070720072522.GB27772@wotan.suse.de> In-Reply-To: <20070720072522.GB27772@wotan.suse.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-ID: <200707200956.03872.joachim.deguara@amd.com> X-OriginalArrivalTime: 20 Jul 2007 07:56:05.0968 (UTC) FILETIME=[6CF2CD00:01C7CAA3] X-WSS-ID: 6ABEB5137CS2920070-01-01 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Friday 20 July 2007 09:25:22 Nick Piggin wrote: > On Wed, Jul 18, 2007 at 11:11:30AM +0200, Joachim Deguara wrote: > > While learning about schedstats I found that the documentation in the > > tree is old. I updated it and found some interesting stuff like > > schedstats version 14 is the same as version and version 13 never saw a > > kernel release! Also there are 6 fields in the current schedstats that > > are not used anymore. Nick had made them irrelevant in commit > > 476d139c218e44e045e4bc6d4cc02b010b343939 but never removed them. > > > > Thanks to Rick's perl script who I borrowed some of the updated > > descriptions from. > > Ah, thanks, I actually didn't realise there was such good documentation > there. Patch looks good. > > BTW. I have a simple program to do a basic statistical summary of the > multiprocessor balancing if you are interested and haven't seen it. Yes I am interested. Actually I started down this road looking to find out if task migration could be tracked and I saw that got kicked out from early versions. Your script could come in useful to link to in the documentation. Rick has a great page but hasn't been updated in a little while (though still up-to-date as version 12==14) and his email bounced (though just a config error). -Joachim