Re: [-mm patch] sched remove lb_stopbalance counter

From: Ingo Molnar
Date: Tue Dec 05 2006 - 10:42:53 EST



* Chen, Kenneth W <kenneth.w.chen@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> > but, please:
> >
> > > -#define SCHEDSTAT_VERSION 13
> > > +#define SCHEDSTAT_VERSION 12
> >
> > change this to 14 instead. Versions should only go upwards, even if
> > we revert to an earlier output format.
>
> Really? sched-decrease-number-of-load-balances.patch has not yet hit
> the mainline and I think it's in -mm for only a couple of weeks. I'm
> trying to back out the change after brief reviewing the patch.

not a big issue but it costs nothing to go to version 14 - OTOH if any
utility has been updated to version 13 and is forgotten about, it might
break spuriously if we again go to 13 in the future.

Ingo
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