Re: [Patch 2/8] Sync block I/O and swapin delay collection

From: Nick Piggin
Date: Tue May 09 2006 - 03:42:10 EST


Balbir Singh wrote:


I expect/hope that the CONFIG will be turned on. There is a boot
option (called delayacct) to enable/disable the statistics collection.
Once turned on and enabled, all tasks will be filling in/using the statistics.


Well they'll be _collecting_ the stats, yes. Will they really be using
them for anything?

If you make the whole thing much lighter weight for tasks which aren't
using the accounting, you have a better chance of people turning the
CONFIG option on.

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