report the per-irq statistics on all arches
authorRavikiran G Thirumalai <kiran@scalex86.org>
Wed, 17 Oct 2007 06:26:28 +0000 (23:26 -0700)
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@woody.linux-foundation.org>
Wed, 17 Oct 2007 15:42:49 +0000 (08:42 -0700)
commitf13ef7754f724842dbf5ae6d85d0604fff0d1a84
treecb2b9d5b9bbe9650df9c8a14871302dd6a5e3193
parentaf49d9248fca6f26cbdb01918334f71d9040df80
report the per-irq statistics on all arches

Commit 4004c69ad68dd03733179277280ea2946990ba36 avoids too many remote cpu
references while reporting per-irq stats.  Since we will not have the same
performance penalty of bringing in remote cpu cachelines while reporting
per-irq stats anymore, we can now afford to be consistent and report this
statistic on all arches, all configs.

akpm: affects ia64, alpha and ppc64, mainly.

Kiran earlier said:

Read to /proc/stat takes:
Plain:  2.622832
With speedup patch: 0.013194
With the per-irq stats commented out: 0.008124

So the performance problems which originally caused those architectures to
disable this statistic should now be fixed up.

Signed-off-by: Ravikiran Thirumalai <kiran@scalex86.org>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: "Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@intel.com>
Cc: Richard Henderson <rth@twiddle.net>
Cc: Ivan Kokshaysky <ink@jurassic.park.msu.ru>
Acked-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
fs/proc/proc_misc.c