Re: [PATCH v4 10/10] sched/fair: Provide idle search schedstats
From: Rick Lindsley
Date: Mon Dec 24 2018 - 07:26:23 EST
On 12/06/2018 01:28 PM, Steve Sistare wrote:
Add schedstats to measure the effectiveness of searching for idle CPUs
and stealing tasks. This is a temporary patch intended for use during
development only. SCHEDSTAT_VERSION is bumped to 16, and the following
fields are added to the per-CPU statistics of /proc/schedstat:
Why only temporary? It would seem that this might be useful information in the future too, for other developers with either new code or new use cases.
Rick