Re: [patch] sched: Keep total / count stats in addition to the maxfor wait time

From: Ingo Molnar
Date: Tue Jan 22 2008 - 16:07:28 EST



* Arjan van de Ven <arjan@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> From: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Subject: sched: Keep total / count stats in addition to the max for wait time
>
> Right now, the linux kernel (with scheduler statistics enabled) keeps
> track of the maximum time a process is waiting to be scheduled. While
> the maximum is a very useful metric, tracking average and total is
> equally useful (at least for latencytop) to figure out the accumulated
> effect of scheduler delays. The accumulated effect is important to
> judge the performance impact of scheduler tuning/behavior.

thanks, applied to sched-devel.git.

Ingo
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