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

[Tim Schmielau]

On Tue, 24 Sep 2002, Rolf Fokkens wrote:
> On Monday 23 September 2002 04:36, William Lee Irwin III wrote:
> > -	unsigned long utime, stime, cutime, cstime;
> > -	unsigned long start_time;
> > -	long per_cpu_utime[NR_CPUS], per_cpu_stime[NR_CPUS];
> >
> > Hmm. Isn't task_t bloated enough already? I'd rather remove them than
> > make them 64-bit.
> 
> Since nobody else asks this question:
> 
> Do you mean to leave out process statistics?

We don't need to leave out process statistics completely, but per-CPU 
per-process statistics indeed looks like overkill.

Tim

P.S.: Some work with respect to cleaning up interfaces of 32 bit jiffies 
has gone into -dj already, but I'm still waiting for the next -dj release 
to sync up.