Re: per-thread rusage

[William Lee Irwin III]

On Wed, 4 Apr 2007 11:10:50 -0700 William Lee Irwin III <wli@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> Respun vs. 2.6.21-rc5-mm4, still untested. Also...
>> Signed-off-by: William Irwin <bill.irwin@xxxxxxxxxx>
[...]


On Mon, Apr 09, 2007 at 04:53:15PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> Seems sane.  Could we please get it tested and get a full description in
> place?  Something which provides enough detail for the manpage maintainers.
> Also, a quick comparison between Linux's RUSAGE_THREAD and $other-os's
> implementations would reduce the possibility of silly, cast-in-stone
> incompatabilities.

The latter is the more serious of the two. I'll go about investigating
that as the primary task here. Testing and a more verbose patch
description are clearly very little work.

General maintenance-relevant commentary: This patch arose from an
observation of a lacuna in the API. There are no bugs or apps broken
awaiting this as a fix, so it's not needed by 2.6.22 or otherwise
urgently. My use for it is report generation in VM (and possibly other)
testcases. The ack-in-concept is good enough for me to go about
sweeping up the OS/standards compatibility, testing, and documentation
issues in the near future prior to resubmission.


-- wli
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