Re: No 100 HZ timer !

Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Tue, 10 Apr 2001 12:54:24 +0100 (BST)

> If you do the accounting on reschedule, how do you find out how much ti=
> me
> has been spent in user versus kernel mode? Or do the Intel chips have t=
> wo
> counters, one for user space execution and one for the kernel?

Unfortunately not so you'd need to do a little bit per syscall, at least for
non trivial syscalls.
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