linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] proc/softirqs: only show state for online cpus

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Date:	Tue, 26 Jul 2011 14:14:35 +0800
From:	Yong Zhang <yong.zhang0@...il.com>
To:	KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@...fujitsu.com>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, akpm@...ux-foundation.org,
	kobayashi.kk@...s.nec.co.jp
Subject: Re: [PATCH] proc/softirqs: only show state for online cpus

2011/7/26 KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@...fujitsu.com>:
>> Like /proc/interrupts, no need to output data for nobody.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Yong Zhang <yong.zhang0@...il.com>
>> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
>> Cc: Keika Kobayashi <kobayashi.kk@...s.nec.co.jp>
>> Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@...fujitsu.com>
>
> If the cpu never be onlined, its statistics always 0. Then, it definitely

Yeah, so your screen may contain noise.

> no value. In the other hand, if the cpu was offlined dynamically, we don't
> know the user want to know the cpus's statistics or not.

Same to /proc/interrupts :)

IMHO, if user want to check the value of offline-cpu, maybe that means
he want to check the state of the whole system, /proc/stat should be the
right choice. /proc/{softirqs,interrupts} is just for immediate state.

>
> Anyway, it's incompatibility change.

Yup, I should have marked the patch with RFC :)

Thanks,
Yong

> I don't think this is valuable change.
>
>
>> ---
>>  fs/proc/softirqs.c |    4 ++--
>>  1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/fs/proc/softirqs.c b/fs/proc/softirqs.c
>> index 62604be..2b32b46 100644
>> --- a/fs/proc/softirqs.c
>> +++ b/fs/proc/softirqs.c
>> @@ -11,13 +11,13 @@ static int show_softirqs(struct seq_file *p, void *v)
>>       int i, j;
>>
>>       seq_puts(p, "                    ");
>> -     for_each_possible_cpu(i)
>> +     for_each_online_cpu(i)
>>               seq_printf(p, "CPU%-8d", i);
>>       seq_putc(p, '\n');
>>
>>       for (i = 0; i < NR_SOFTIRQS; i++) {
>>               seq_printf(p, "%12s:", softirq_to_name[i]);
>> -             for_each_possible_cpu(j)
>> +             for_each_online_cpu(j)
>>                       seq_printf(p, " %10u", kstat_softirqs_cpu(i, j));
>>               seq_putc(p, '\n');
>>       }
>
>
>



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