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Message-ID: <471F15D5.3050100@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Date:	Wed, 24 Oct 2007 15:22:21 +0530
From:	Balbir Singh <balbir@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
To:	Michael Neuling <mikey@...ling.org>
CC:	paulus@...ba.org, akpm@...ux-foundation.org, linux390@...ibm.com,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linuxppc-dev@...abs.org,
	linux-s390@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] taskstats scaled time cleanup

Michael Neuling wrote:
> This moves the ability to scale cputime into generic code.  This
> allows us to fix the issue in kernel/timer.c (noticed by Balbir) where
> we could only add an unscaled value to the scaled utime/stime.
> 
> This adds a cputime_to_scaled function.  As before, the POWERPC
> version does the scaling based on the last SPURR/PURR ratio
> calculated.  The generic and s390 (only other arch to implement
> asm/cputime.h) versions are both NOPs.
> 
> Also moves the SPURR and PURR snapshots closer.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Michael Neuling <mikey@...ling.org>

Looks good to me

Acked-by: Balbir Singh <balbir@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>

-- 
	Warm Regards,
	Balbir Singh
	Linux Technology Center
	IBM, ISTL
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