From: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
To: Shailabh Nagar <nagar@watson.ibm.com>
Cc: linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
lse-tech <lse-tech@lists.sourceforge.net>
Subject: Re: [Patch 2/7] Add sysctl for schedstats
Date: Mon, 27 Feb 2006 23:28:21 +1100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4402F065.3010303@yahoo.com.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4402C954.2080606@watson.ibm.com>
Shailabh Nagar wrote:
> Nick Piggin wrote:
>>
>> And clearing this at all is not really needed for the schedstats
>> interface.
>> You have a timestamp and a set of accumulated values, so it is easy to
>> work
>> out deltas. So do you need this?
>
>
> Not clearing the stats will mean userspace has to distinguish between
> the tasks
> that are hanging around from before the last turn off, and the ones
> created after
> wards. Any delta taken across an interval where schedstats was turned
> off will
> give the impression a task was sleeping during the interval (and hence
> show it had
> a lesser average wait time than it might actually have experienced).
Presumably a delta taken acrsoss an interval where schedstats
was turned off would be rather inaccurate, no matter what.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-02-27 12:28 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 66+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-02-27 7:56 [Patch 0/7] Per-task delay accounting Shailabh Nagar
2006-02-27 8:02 ` [Patch 1/7] timespec diff utility Shailabh Nagar
2006-02-27 8:12 ` [Patch 2/7] Add sysctl for schedstats Shailabh Nagar
2006-02-27 8:52 ` Ingo Molnar
2006-02-27 10:46 ` [Lse-tech] " Balbir Singh
2006-02-27 12:18 ` Arjan van de Ven
2006-02-27 12:29 ` Balbir Singh
2006-02-27 13:06 ` Arjan van de Ven
2006-02-27 16:16 ` Balbir Singh
2006-02-27 9:17 ` Nick Piggin
2006-02-27 9:41 ` Shailabh Nagar
2006-02-27 12:28 ` Nick Piggin [this message]
2006-02-27 19:09 ` [Lse-tech] " Chandra Seetharaman
2006-02-28 0:25 ` Nick Piggin
2006-02-28 1:42 ` chandra seetharaman
2006-03-07 17:26 ` schedstats refinement (was Re: [Lse-tech] Re: [Patch 2/7] Add sysctl for schedstats) Balbir Singh
2006-02-27 17:05 ` [Lse-tech] [Patch 2/7] Add sysctl for schedstats Bryan O'Sullivan
2006-02-27 20:55 ` Shailabh Nagar
2006-02-27 22:26 ` Bryan O'Sullivan
2006-02-27 8:22 ` [Patch 1/7] timespec diff utility Arjan van de Ven
2006-02-27 8:34 ` Shailabh Nagar
2006-02-27 8:37 ` Arjan van de Ven
2006-02-27 8:15 ` [Patch 3/7] delay accounting initial setup Shailabh Nagar
2006-02-27 8:18 ` [Patch 4/7] Add sysctl for delay accounting Shailabh Nagar
2006-02-27 8:26 ` Arjan van de Ven
2006-02-27 8:38 ` Shailabh Nagar
2006-02-27 8:42 ` Arjan van de Ven
2006-02-27 8:59 ` Shailabh Nagar
2006-02-27 11:18 ` [Lse-tech] " Balbir Singh
2006-02-27 9:04 ` Dipankar Sarma
2006-02-27 9:13 ` Arjan van de Ven
2006-02-27 10:11 ` [Lse-tech] " Balbir Singh
2006-02-27 11:24 ` Arjan van de Ven
2006-02-27 12:00 ` Balbir Singh
2006-02-27 12:23 ` Srivatsa Vaddagiri
2006-02-27 8:20 ` [Patch 5/7] synchronous block I/O delays Shailabh Nagar
2006-02-27 8:29 ` Arjan van de Ven
2006-02-27 9:13 ` Shailabh Nagar
2006-02-27 9:18 ` Arjan van de Ven
2006-02-27 9:24 ` Arjan van de Ven
2006-02-27 14:18 ` Andi Kleen
2006-02-27 21:31 ` Shailabh Nagar
2006-02-27 22:09 ` Shailabh Nagar
2006-02-27 22:20 ` Andi Kleen
2006-02-28 8:10 ` Arjan van de Ven
2006-02-27 8:22 ` [Patch 6/7] Swapin page fault delays Shailabh Nagar
2006-02-27 8:30 ` Arjan van de Ven
2006-02-27 22:16 ` Shailabh Nagar
2006-02-27 8:31 ` [Patch 7/7] Generic netlink interface (delay accounting) Shailabh Nagar
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2006-03-06 17:00 ` Shailabh Nagar
2006-03-07 14:38 ` [Lse-tech] " jamal
2006-03-08 21:56 ` Shailabh Nagar
2006-03-08 21:56 ` Shailabh Nagar
2006-03-09 14:37 ` [UPDATED PATCH] Re: [Lse-tech] " Balbir Singh
2006-03-09 14:37 ` [UPDATED PATCH] " Balbir Singh
2006-03-09 16:06 ` [UPDATED PATCH] Re: [Lse-tech] " Shailabh Nagar
2006-03-09 16:06 ` [UPDATED PATCH] " Shailabh Nagar
2006-03-10 14:53 ` [UPDATED PATCH] Re: [Lse-tech] " jamal
2006-03-10 14:53 ` [UPDATED PATCH] " jamal
2006-03-10 15:35 ` [UPDATED PATCH] Re: [Lse-tech] " jamal
2006-03-10 16:39 ` Balbir Singh
2006-03-10 16:39 ` [UPDATED PATCH] " Balbir Singh
2006-03-11 13:30 ` [UPDATED PATCH] Re: [Lse-tech] " jamal
2006-03-11 13:30 ` [UPDATED PATCH] " jamal
2006-03-13 16:21 ` [UPDATED PATCH] Re: [Lse-tech] " Balbir Singh
2006-02-27 9:10 ` [Patch 0/7] Per-task delay accounting Nick Piggin
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