From: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
To: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Wanpeng Li <kernellwp@gmail.com>, Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>,
Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>,
Luiz Capitulino <lcapitulino@redhat.com>,
"linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Subject: Re: [BUG nohz]: wrong user and system time accounting
Date: Wed, 12 Apr 2017 17:14:23 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20170412151421.GF21309@lerouge> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.2.20.1704121654150.1874@nanos>
On Wed, Apr 12, 2017 at 04:57:58PM +0200, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> On Wed, 12 Apr 2017, Frederic Weisbecker wrote:
> > On Tue, Apr 11, 2017 at 04:22:48PM +0200, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> > > It's not different from the current jiffies based stuff at all. Same
> > > failure mode.
> >
> > Yes you're right, I got confused again. So to fix this we could do our snapshots
> > at a frequency lower than HZ but still high enough to avoid overhead.
> >
> > Something like TICK_NSEC / 2 ?
>
> If you are using TSC anyway then you can do proper accumulation for both
> system and user and only account the data when the accumulation is more
> than a jiffie.
Sounds nice, and accumulation shouldn't introduce too much overhead. Let's try that.
Thanks.
>
> Thanks,
>
> tglx
>
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Thread overview: 67+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-03-23 20:55 [BUG nohz]: wrong user and system time accounting Luiz Capitulino
2017-03-24 0:56 ` Rik van Riel
2017-03-24 1:05 ` Luiz Capitulino
2017-03-24 1:08 ` Rik van Riel
2017-03-24 1:39 ` Luiz Capitulino
2017-03-27 5:33 ` lkml
2017-03-24 1:52 ` Wanpeng Li
2017-03-24 3:56 ` Luiz Capitulino
2017-03-27 1:56 ` Wanpeng Li
2017-03-27 17:35 ` Rik van Riel
2017-03-28 7:19 ` Wanpeng Li
[not found] ` <20170328132406.7d23579c@redhat.com>
[not found] ` <20170328161454.4a5d9e8b@redhat.com>
2017-03-28 21:01 ` Rik van Riel
2017-03-28 21:26 ` Luiz Capitulino
2017-03-29 9:56 ` Wanpeng Li
2017-03-29 12:56 ` Frederic Weisbecker
2017-03-28 21:24 ` Rik van Riel
2017-03-28 21:30 ` Luiz Capitulino
[not found] ` <20170329131656.1d6cb743@redhat.com>
2017-03-29 20:08 ` Rik van Riel
2017-03-29 22:54 ` Frederic Weisbecker
2017-03-30 12:57 ` Rik van Riel
2017-03-30 1:58 ` Wanpeng Li
2017-03-30 12:40 ` Frederic Weisbecker
2017-03-30 13:19 ` Mike Galbraith
2017-03-30 4:27 ` Mike Galbraith
2017-03-30 6:47 ` Wanpeng Li
2017-03-30 11:52 ` Wanpeng Li
2017-03-30 12:33 ` Mike Galbraith
2017-03-30 13:38 ` Frederic Weisbecker
2017-03-30 13:59 ` Wanpeng Li
2017-03-30 14:18 ` Frederic Weisbecker
2017-03-30 21:25 ` Luiz Capitulino
2017-03-31 20:09 ` Luiz Capitulino
2017-03-31 23:24 ` Frederic Weisbecker
2017-04-01 3:11 ` Luiz Capitulino
2017-04-03 15:23 ` Frederic Weisbecker
2017-04-03 19:06 ` Luiz Capitulino
2017-04-04 17:36 ` Luiz Capitulino
2017-04-05 14:26 ` Rik van Riel
2017-04-11 11:03 ` Wanpeng Li
2017-04-11 11:36 ` Peter Zijlstra
2017-04-11 11:43 ` Wanpeng Li
2017-04-11 14:22 ` Thomas Gleixner
2017-04-12 13:18 ` Frederic Weisbecker
2017-04-12 14:57 ` Thomas Gleixner
2017-04-12 15:14 ` Frederic Weisbecker [this message]
2017-04-13 4:31 ` Wanpeng Li
2017-04-13 13:32 ` Frederic Weisbecker
2017-05-02 10:01 ` Wanpeng Li
2017-05-15 8:17 ` Wanpeng Li
2017-06-29 17:22 ` Frederic Weisbecker
2017-03-30 12:51 ` Frederic Weisbecker
2017-03-30 13:02 ` Rik van Riel
2017-03-30 13:35 ` Mike Galbraith
2017-04-03 14:40 ` Frederic Weisbecker
2017-04-04 7:32 ` Mike Galbraith
2017-03-30 13:44 ` Frederic Weisbecker
[not found] ` <20170329221700.GB23895@lerouge>
2017-03-29 22:46 ` Wanpeng Li
2017-03-30 2:14 ` Luiz Capitulino
2017-03-30 12:27 ` Wanpeng Li
2017-03-27 18:38 ` Luiz Capitulino
2017-03-28 5:28 ` Wanpeng Li
2017-03-28 13:44 ` Luiz Capitulino
2017-03-29 13:04 ` Frederic Weisbecker
2017-03-29 13:14 ` Rik van Riel
2017-03-29 13:23 ` Luiz Capitulino
2017-03-29 21:12 ` Frederic Weisbecker
2017-03-30 1:48 ` Luiz Capitulino
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