Re: [gentoo-user] Which cputime accounting for kernel-3.10.7 ?

[Bruce Hill <daddy@happypenguincomputers.com>]

On Sat, Aug 24, 2013 at 10:40:25AM +0100, Mick wrote:
> Hi All,
> 
> I'm about to compile a new kernel and running oldconfig brings up this new set 
> of options.  There is no help available, grep-ping through the Documentation 
> wasn't particularly revealing and I haven't found anything in Google to help 
> me decide what I need/want out of the three:
> ===================================================
> 
> * CPU/Task time and stats accounting
> *
> Cputime accounting
>   1. Simple tick based cputime accounting (TICK_CPU_ACCOUNTING)
> > 2. Full dynticks CPU time accounting (VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_GEN) (NEW)
>   3. Fine granularity task level IRQ time accounting (IRQ_TIME_ACCOUNTING)
> choice[1-3]: ?
> 
> There is no help available for this option.
> Prompt: Cputime accounting
>   Location:
>     -> General setup
>       -> CPU/Task time and stats accounting
>   Defined at init/Kconfig:297
>   Selected by: m
> ===================================================
> 
> Option 2 seems to have been selected by default, but I am not sure if this is 
> right for a laptop.
> 
> What have you chosen and why?
> 
> -- 
> Regards,
> Mick

Each of the three options has it's own individual help.
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