Re: [PATCH] taskstats: Use real microsecond granularity for CPUtimes

[Andrew Morton]

On Mon, 11 Oct 2010 09:26:44 +0200
Michael Holzheu <holzheu@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> The taskstats interface uses microsecond granularity for the user and
> system time values. The conversion from cputime to the taskstats values
> uses the cputime_to_msecs primitive which effectively limits the 
> granularity to milliseconds. Add the cputime_to_usecs primitive for
> architectures that have better, more precise CPU time values. Remove
> cputime_to_msecs primitive because there is no more user left.

Fair enough.

msecs_to_cputime() never had any callers, and it replacement
usecs_to_cputime() doesn't have any callers either.  Maybe we should
just zap it.


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