Axel Thimm (Axel.Thimm(a)ATrpms.net) said:
Would it make sense to add these patches to Fedora's kernel?
http://www.atcomputing.nl/Tools/atop
This could help in the area of extending laptop battery life by
detecting unneccessary disk access. The first step is to have some
disk I/O to process mapping.
These patches:
a) aren't upstream
b) change the format of /proc/stat
c) change process accounting in an incompatible way
So... no.
Bill