On Mon, 2010-11-15 at 19:00 +0100, Martin Schwidefsky wrote: > On Mon, 15 Nov 2010 18:51:57 +0100 > Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > On Mon, 2010-11-15 at 18:49 +0100, Martin Schwidefsky wrote: > > > > To what purpose? > > > > > > Is that a trick question? Why do we have tools like "top"? Or process > > > accounting? The point is that the quality of the numbers we get right > > > now is rather bad, the overhead of scanning /proc is horrendous and > > > the 10ms granularity is rather coarse. > > > > But you're not just replacing top, you're adding all kinds of new > > accounting crap all over the place. > > We DO replace top. Patch #7 of 7. You _also_ replace top, but its not by far the only thing you do. If you simply replaced top you wouldn't need to add tons of extra accounting, would you? -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-s390" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
