Zach Brown writes:
> The attached patch-in-progress removes the per-cpu statistics from
> struct kernel_stat and puts them in a cpu_stat structure, one per cpu,
> cacheline padded. The data is still coolated and presented through
> /proc/stat, but another file /proc/cpustat is also added. The locking
> is as nonexistant as it was with kernel_stat, but who cares, they're
> just fuzzy stats to be eyeballed by system tuners :).
Hey! The lack of atomicity causes "top" to do one of 3 things
for the idle time report, depending on the version:
1. negative numbers
2. wrap-around (42000000.00% idle)
3. truncate to zero (the numbers don't add up)
This is because top sees the idle time run backwards for a moment.
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