linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] proc/stat: Separate out individual irq counts into /proc/stat

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Message-ID: <20180421203422.GA14396@avx2>
Date:   Sat, 21 Apr 2018 23:34:22 +0300
From:   Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@...il.com>
To:     "Joel Fernandes (Google)" <joel.opensrc@...il.com>
Cc:     Waiman Long <longman@...hat.com>,
        Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        rdunlap@...radead.org, Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] proc/stat: Separate out individual irq counts into
 /proc/stat_irqs

On Thu, Apr 19, 2018 at 04:23:02PM -0700, Joel Fernandes (Google) wrote:
> Can we not just remove per-IRQ stats from /proc/stat (since I gather
> from this discussion it isn't scalable), and just have applications
> that need per-IRQ stats use /proc/interrupts ?

If you can prove noone is using them in /proc/stat...