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proc.5: add description for softirq line in /proc/stat

PATCH In review Eugene Syromyatnikov 2 participants 2 messages Sep 2, 2017 – Sep 3, 2017 1 message not in the archive Man-pages: manual pages for Linux -- Sections 2, 3, 4, 5, and 7

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PATCH 3/3 proc.5: add description for softirq line in /proc/stat

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 man5/proc.5 | 7 +++++++
 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+)
man5/proc.5 +7 -0
index 077bde2..d308b32 100644
@@ -3815,6 +3815,13 @@ Number of processes in runnable state.
 \fIprocs_blocked 2\fP
 Number of processes blocked waiting for I/O to complete.
 (Linux 2.5.45 onward.)
+.TP
+.I softirq 229245889 94 60001584 13619 5175704 2471304 28 51212741 59130143 0 51240672
+.\" commit d3d64df21d3d0de675a0d3ffa7c10514f3644b30
+This line shows the number of softirq for all CPUs.
+The first column is the total of all softirqs and
+each subsequent column is the total for particular softirq.
+(since Linux 2.6.31)
 .RE
 .TP
 .I /proc/swaps
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2.1.4

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Quoted 3 lines · Eugene Syromyatnikov
---
 man5/proc.5 | 7 +++++++
 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+)

Thanks, Eugene! Applied

Cheers,

Michael

Quoted 19 lines
man5/proc.5 +7 -0
index 077bde2..d308b32 100644
@@ -3815,6 +3815,13 @@ Number of processes in runnable state.
 \fIprocs_blocked 2\fP
 Number of processes blocked waiting for I/O to complete.
 (Linux 2.5.45 onward.)
+.TP
+.I softirq 229245889 94 60001584 13619 5175704 2471304 28 51212741 59130143 0 51240672
+.\" commit d3d64df21d3d0de675a0d3ffa7c10514f3644b30
+This line shows the number of softirq for all CPUs.
+The first column is the total of all softirqs and
+each subsequent column is the total for particular softirq.
+(since Linux 2.6.31)
 .RE
 .TP
 .I /proc/swaps
Signature · 7 lines
Michael Kerrisk
Linux man-pages maintainer; http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/
Linux/UNIX System Programming Training: http://man7.org/training/
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