Re: Performance Stats: Kernel patch

[Pavel Machek]

Hi!

On Sun 2007-04-15 03:21:57, William Lee Irwin III wrote:
> At some point in the past, someone's attribution was stripped from:

Maxim's.

> >> +       return buffer + sprintf(buffer, "Nvcsw:\t%lu\n"
> >> +                           "Nivcsw:\t%lu\n",
> >> +                           p->nvcsw,
> >> +                           p->nivcsw);
> 
> On Sun, Apr 15, 2007 at 09:47:07AM +0000, Pavel Machek wrote:
> > We don't encrypt variable names like this.
> 
> nvcsw and nivcsw are conventional variable names for these quantities.

I can't decipher them and would not want users see them in /proc.


Would nonvoluntary_ctxt_switch be that much worse?

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