Re: [PATCH] 32bit wraps and USER_HZ [64 bit counters], kernel 2.5.37

[William Lee Irwin III]

On Tuesday 24 September 2002 00:13, Robert Love wrote:
>> Having arrays statically created at NR_CPUS inside the task_struct is
>> just gross.  Especially with NR_CPUS=32.  That is 128 bytes each!  Now
>> with your changes, it is 256 bytes each!

On Tue, Sep 24, 2002 at 09:04:25AM +0200, Rolf Fokkens wrote:
> I can understand that. However from a user point of view statistics are very 
> usefull information, but not specifically the per-processor statistics.
> I assume you mean to leave out the per-process statistics? Or do you mean to 
> kmalloc the per-processor statistics when needed - that is: only when 
> processes are running or maybe when the user has chosen to turn then on (some 
> sysctl maybe)? 

I'm in favor of removing them entirely.

Cheers,
Bill