On 12/24/2018 7:25 AM, Rick Lindsley wrote: > 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
Yes, they could be useful. I suspect it would take a while to reach consensus on new field definition, and whether their usefulness outweighs the downside of breaking out of tree tools that assume version 15. - Steve
