Re: [PATCH 0/4] Finer granularity and task/cgroup irq timeaccounting

[Peter Zijlstra]

On Tue, 2010-08-24 at 14:06 +0200, Martin Schwidefsky wrote:
> Well, I have sent a patch back in 2006 that stops adding the hardirq /
> softirq time to the currently running process. See
> http://lkml.org/lkml/2006/8/24/139

Time to maybe revisit that ;-)

> It did not get very far, so that answer to the question if we need
> accounting madness seems to be yes .. 

Well, that's only a little accounting, but trying to infer to what task
to account IRQ time is going to become madness.
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