Re: [RFC] shrink task_struct by removing per_cpu utime and stime

[William Lee Irwin III]

On Tue, 2002-07-16 at 08:09, William Lee Irwin III wrote:
>> These statistics severely bloat the task_struct and nothing in
>> userspace can rely on them as they're conditional on CONFIG_SMP. If
>> anyone is using them (or just wants them around), please speak up.

On Tue, Jul 16, 2002 at 11:11:06AM +0100, Alan Cox wrote:
> User space can rely on them because it can check if the data is present.
> Some of the graphical process monitors dump per cpu utime/stime. Its
> sometimes a good way to cringe at our SMP balancing algorithms in 2.4

If that's a "no" I can deal with it. I'm just cringing at its space
consumption and I guess we all know how oversensitive I am to that =).

Cheers,
Bill