linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 1/4] cputime: Generalize CONFIG_VIRT_CPU

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Date:	Thu, 16 Aug 2012 19:38:17 +1000
From:	Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@...nel.crashing.org>
To:	Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@...ibm.com>
Cc:	Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@...il.com>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Tony Luck <tony.luck@...el.com>,
	Fenghua Yu <fenghua.yu@...el.com>,
	Paul Mackerras <paulus@...ba.org>,
	Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@...ibm.com>,
	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/4] cputime: Generalize CONFIG_VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING

On Thu, 2012-08-16 at 09:53 +0200, Martin Schwidefsky wrote:
> Hmm, ok. But then the description should be reworded not to be specific to
> the power architecture (the part of the message about "This also enables
> accounting of stolen time on logically-partitioned systems running on IBM
> POWER5-based machines."). 

Which is not very helpful to somebody running on a POWER6 or 7 (which
also support that option just fine :-)

So yes, the description should definitely be improved.

Cheers,
Ben.


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