Re: Please, put 64-bit counter per task and incr.by.one each ctxtswitch.

[Andrew Morton]

On Sun, 24 Feb 2008 14:12:47 +0100 "J.C. Pizarro" <jcpiza@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> It's statistic, yes, but it's a very important parameter for the CPU-scheduler.
> The CPU-scheduler will know the number of context switches of each task
>  before of to take a blind decision into infinitum!.

We already have these:

        unsigned long nvcsw, nivcsw; /* context switch counts */

in the task_struct.
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