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| author | Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> | 2006-12-04 15:59:07 +1100 |
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| committer | Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> | 2006-12-04 15:59:07 +1100 |
| commit | 79acbb3ff2d8095b692e1502b9eb2ccec348de26 (patch) | |
| tree | 6ab773e5a8f9de2cd6443362b21d0d6fffe3b35e /Documentation/accounting/taskstats.txt | |
| parent | 19a79859e168640f8e16d7b216d211c1c52b687a (diff) | |
| parent | 2b5f6dcce5bf94b9b119e9ed8d537098ec61c3d2 (diff) | |
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Merge branch 'linux-2.6' into for-linus
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diff --git a/Documentation/accounting/taskstats.txt b/Documentation/accounting/taskstats.txt index 92ebf29e904..ff06b738bb8 100644 --- a/Documentation/accounting/taskstats.txt +++ b/Documentation/accounting/taskstats.txt @@ -96,9 +96,9 @@ a) TASKSTATS_TYPE_AGGR_PID/TGID : attribute containing no payload but indicates a pid/tgid will be followed by some stats. b) TASKSTATS_TYPE_PID/TGID: attribute whose payload is the pid/tgid whose stats -is being returned. +are being returned. -c) TASKSTATS_TYPE_STATS: attribute with a struct taskstsats as payload. The +c) TASKSTATS_TYPE_STATS: attribute with a struct taskstats as payload. The same structure is used for both per-pid and per-tgid stats. 3. New message sent by kernel whenever a task exits. The payload consists of a @@ -122,12 +122,12 @@ of atomicity). However, maintaining per-process, in addition to per-task stats, within the kernel has space and time overheads. To address this, the taskstats code -accumalates each exiting task's statistics into a process-wide data structure. -When the last task of a process exits, the process level data accumalated also +accumulates each exiting task's statistics into a process-wide data structure. +When the last task of a process exits, the process level data accumulated also gets sent to userspace (along with the per-task data). When a user queries to get per-tgid data, the sum of all other live threads in -the group is added up and added to the accumalated total for previously exited +the group is added up and added to the accumulated total for previously exited threads of the same thread group. Extending taskstats |