[PATCH] PPC64 collect and export low-level cpu usage statistics
Manish Ahuja
ahuja at austin.ibm.com
Wed Feb 15 12:05:55 EST 2006
Stephen Rothwell wrote:
>Why not PACA_START_TB and PACA_DELTA_TB? Also, start_tb and delta_tb don't really
>store time base values, but PURR values.
>
>
Stephen,
Thanks for the review. I will address all points or make appropriate
changes where required.
Just a quick note before I head out for the day. I will send another
detailed response a bit later.
On why these are called tb and not purr. I presume when i dropped the
last patch, we weren't exhaustively
tracking anything else other than purr and Paul M suggested that I use
"tb" instead of purr. I would personally
prefer purr as it makes reading the code easier as it suggests exactly
what is being tracked.
I can try and change it back to purr if Paul M agrees to it.
Thanks,
Manish.
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