Re: [PATCH 4/4] per-task-delay-accounting: /proc export for memoryreclaim delay

[Keika Kobayashi]

On Wed, 4 Jun 2008 15:41:24 -0700
Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> 
> Any application which breaks if we add more things to /proc/pid/stat
> just needs to be fixed.
> 
> But we can't add new fields in the middle of the line!  We can only add
> new items to the end.
> 
> But I think it would be good if we just weren't to make this change. 
> Do we really want to keep reporting the same information in two
> separate ways?

I agree. There is no strong reason with two method.
I'll drop this one from patch series next time.

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