On 12/02/07, Vassili Karpov <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> How does the kernel calculates the value it places in `/proc/stat' at
> 4th position (i.e. "idle: twiddling thumbs")?
>
..
>
> Later small kernel module was developed that tried to time how much
> time is spent in the idle handler inside the kernel and exported this
> information to the user-space. The results were consistent with our
> expectations and the output of the test utility.
..
> http://www.boblycat.org/~malc/apc
Vassili
Could you rewrite this code as a kernel patch for
discussion/inclusion in mainline? I and maybe others would
appreciate having idle statistics be more accurate.
Thanks for your work
Andrew
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