linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 4/9] Include irq and softirq fields in cpuacct

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Date:	Mon, 19 Sep 2011 20:38:25 +0200
From:	Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@...llo.nl>
To:	Glauber Costa <glommer@...allels.com>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, xemul@...allels.com,
	paul@...lmenage.org, lizf@...fujitsu.com, daniel.lezcano@...e.fr,
	mingo@...e.hu, jbottomley@...allels.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/9] Include irq and softirq fields in cpuacct

On Wed, 2011-09-14 at 17:04 -0300, Glauber Costa wrote:
> +       CPUACCT_STAT_IRQ,       /* ... irq ticks */
> +       CPUACCT_STAT_SOFTIRQ,   /* ... softirq ticks */

Would it make sense to make the cpustat thing an array as well? That way
the if forest will compute an array index and the cgroup and cpustat
parts can then use the 'same' code.

That avoids having to pass a cputime64_t* and int around for pretty much
the same thing.
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