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From: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
To: holzheu@linux.vnet.ibm.com
Cc: Luck Tony <tony.luck@intel.com>,
	benh@kernel.crashing.org,
	Balbir Singh <balbir@linux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	Shailabh Nagar <nagar1234@in.ibm.com>,
	Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] taskstats: Use real microsecond granularity for CPU times
Date: Mon, 11 Oct 2010 12:57:15 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20101011125715.62001452.akpm@linux-foundation.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1286782004.1942.24.camel@holzheu-laptop>

On Mon, 11 Oct 2010 09:26:44 +0200
Michael Holzheu <holzheu@linux.vnet.ibm.com> wrote:

> The taskstats interface uses microsecond granularity for the user and
> system time values. The conversion from cputime to the taskstats values
> uses the cputime_to_msecs primitive which effectively limits the 
> granularity to milliseconds. Add the cputime_to_usecs primitive for
> architectures that have better, more precise CPU time values. Remove
> cputime_to_msecs primitive because there is no more user left.

Fair enough.

msecs_to_cputime() never had any callers, and it replacement
usecs_to_cputime() doesn't have any callers either.  Maybe we should
just zap it.



      reply	other threads:[~2010-10-11 19:57 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-10-11  7:26 Michael Holzheu
2010-10-11 19:57 ` Andrew Morton [this message]

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