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author | Maxim Uvarov <muvarov@ru.mvista.com> | 2007-07-15 23:40:48 -0700 |
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committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@woody.linux-foundation.org> | 2007-07-16 09:05:46 -0700 |
commit | b663a79c191508f27cd885224b592a878c0ba0f6 (patch) | |
tree | 270a0472bf1fb0c7323ecb60ec68e40d02dcb1b4 /drivers/misc | |
parent | a6c15c2b0fbfd5c0a84f5f0e1e3f20f85d2b8692 (diff) |
taskstats: add context-switch counters
Make available to the user the following task and process performance
statistics:
* Involuntary Context Switches (task_struct->nivcsw)
* Voluntary Context Switches (task_struct->nvcsw)
Statistics information is available from:
1. taskstats interface (Documentation/accounting/)
2. /proc/PID/status (task only).
This data is useful for detecting hyperactivity patterns between processes.
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: cleanup]
Signed-off-by: Maxim Uvarov <muvarov@ru.mvista.com>
Cc: Shailabh Nagar <nagar@watson.ibm.com>
Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Jay Lan <jlan@engr.sgi.com>
Cc: Jonathan Lim <jlim@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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