linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] sched: Remove sched_switch completely from runqueue structure.

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Date:	Wed, 25 Jan 2012 13:33:00 +0100
From:	Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@...llo.nl>
To:	Rakib Mullick <rakib.mullick@...il.com>
Cc:	mingo@...e.hu, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] sched: Remove sched_switch completely from runqueue
 structure.

On Tue, 2012-01-24 at 22:33 +0600, Rakib Mullick wrote:
> Currently we don't utilize sched_switch field properly for counting
> context switch numbers. We can remove it.
> But, simply removing sched_switch field from sched_stat output will
> break ABI integrity. So, we make sure 
> /proc/sched_stat output remains as it is by hardcoding zero in place
> of sched_switch field's output and remove
> sched_switch from sched_debug output too. And update scheduler-stat
> documentation accordingly.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Rakib Mullick <rakib.mullick@...il.com> 

Thanks

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