Re: RFC: /proc/<pid>/sched should contain cumulative data for allthreads in process

From: Ingo Molnar
Date: Tue Feb 08 2011 - 10:14:59 EST



* Peter Zijlstra <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Very much depends on what is wanted, but most of the stuff inside those files is
> very specific to the implementation and pinning any of that to an ABI is like
> silly.

Why? If the implementation changes then those values lose meaning and the most
correct value to report is *zero* and that's it.

That's how such things were always done, it was never a problem in the past 15
years. Why should it start being a problem suddenly?

Thanks,

Ingo
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