linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] Add hierarchical accounting to cpu accounting controller

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Message-ID: <20081105032911.GC8304@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Date:	Wed, 5 Nov 2008 08:59:11 +0530
From:	Srivatsa Vaddagiri <vatsa@...ibm.com>
To:	Bharata B Rao <bharata@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc:	Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@...cle.com>,
	KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@...fujitsu.com>,
	Dhaval Giani <dhaval@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	Li Zefan <lizf@...fujitsu.com>,
	Balbir Singh <balbir@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	Paul Menage <menage@...gle.com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@...llo.nl>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Add hierarchical accounting to cpu accounting
	controller

On Wed, Nov 05, 2008 at 08:54:40AM +0530, Bharata B Rao wrote:
> I will resend the patch with other corrections you mentioned only if
> Paul/Ingo want this patch to go in.

I strongly recommend his patch to go in, as otherwise group accounting
will be broken where control hierarchy is not same as accounting
hierarchy. In that sense, I would treat this patch as more of a bug fix
than anything else.

- vatsa
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