RE: Incorrect accounting of irq into the running task

[Sadasivan Shaiju <sshaiju@mvista.com>]

Hi Shaun,

-----Original Message-----
From: Shaun Ruffell [mailto:sruffell@digium.com]
Sent: Saturday, January 05, 2013 9:21 AM
To: Sadasivan Shaiju
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org; venki@google.com; a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl
Subject: Re: Incorrect accounting of irq into the running task

On Fri, Jan 04, 2013 at 10:22:12AM -0800, Sadasivan Shaiju wrote:
> Hi  Venkatesh,
>
> I have applied the following patches for the incorrect accounting of
> irq into the running task .
>
>
> [PATCH] x86: Add IRQ_TIME_ACCOUNTING
> [e82b8e4ea4f3dffe6e7939f90e78da675fcc450e]
> [PATCH] sched: Add IRQ_TIME_ACCOUNTING, finer accounting of irq time
> [b52bfee445d315549d41eacf2fa7c156e7d153d5]
>
> [PATCH] sched: Do not account irq time to current task
> [305e6835e05513406fa12820e40e4a8ecb63743c]
> [PATCH] sched: Export ns irqtimes through /proc/stat
> [abb74cefa9c682fb38ba86c17ca3c86fed6cc464]
>
>
>
> But still the stime and utime of the process in /proc/pid/stat is
> high. I think the above patches does not update The stime and utime
> values in /proc/pid/stat.
>
>
> Or am I missing anything?

Just checking that you do have CONFIG_IRQ_TIME_ACCOUNTING=y in your kernel
config?

  Yes  it  is  turned  on  .

Regards,
Shaiju.

Cheers,
Shaun