Re: [tip:sched/core] sched: cpuacct: Use bigger percpu counterbatch values for stats counters

[KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki]

On Thu, 20 Aug 2009 16:05:28 +1000
Anton Blanchard <anton@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> 
> Hi,
> 
> > Agreed, the first hunk is dangerous, on the second hunk, I'm not sure
> > about the INT_MAX thing, that's a 4s gap per cpu, that might be a tad
> > much.
> 
> Yeah I somehow missed the fact we read it every timer tick. I was hoping
> for an easy fix but I guess we just need to set a reasonable batch size
> at runtime.
> 

Could you share contex-switch-test program ?
I'd like to play with it to find out what I can do against percpu counter.

Thanks,
-Kame

> Anton
> 

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