Re: [PATCH 2/6] Add IRQ_TIME_ACCOUNTING, finer accounting of CPU irq time

[Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>]

On Thu, 2010-09-16 at 18:56 -0700, Venkatesh Pallipadi wrote:
> +void account_system_vtime(struct task_struct *tsk)
> +{
> +       unsigned long flags;
> +       int cpu;
> +       u64 now, delta;
> +
> +       if (!sched_clock_irqtime)
> +               return;
> +
> +       local_irq_save(flags);
> +
> +       cpu = task_cpu(tsk);
> +       now = sched_clock();
> +       delta = now - per_cpu(irq_start_time, cpu);
> +       per_cpu(irq_start_time, cpu) = now;
> +       if (hardirq_count())
> +               per_cpu(cpu_hardirq_time, cpu) += delta;
> +       else if (softirq_count())
> +               per_cpu(cpu_softirq_time, cpu) += delta;
> +
> +       local_irq_restore(flags);
> +} 

This seems to suggest you count time double if a hardirq hits while
we're doing softirqs, but being as this is an incomplete api its very
hard to tell indeed.