From: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org>
To: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
stable@kernel.org, Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>,
Chris Wright <chrisw@sous-sol.org>
Subject: Re: [patch] fix the softlockup watchdog to actually work
Date: Thu, 19 Jul 2007 07:40:48 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <469F77F0.8040407@goop.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070719143528.GA8278@elte.hu>
Ingo Molnar wrote:
>> How reliable does it need to be? All we need is to measure "about 10
>> seconds"; if we can't get that out of it, how can it be good for
>> anything else?
>>
>
> sched_clock(), as its name suggests it, is meant for the scheduler's
> use. The scheduler generally only needs to measure time when the CPU is
> busy - not across idle periods. So sched_clock() can (and will) break
> across certain types of ACPI idle methods.
>
Doesn't that mean it will mis-measure process idle times? Is that a
problem?
J
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-07-19 14:41 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 40+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-07-17 11:44 [patch] softlockup watchdog: fix Xen bogosity Ingo Molnar
2007-07-17 14:17 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2007-07-17 15:49 ` [patch] fix the softlockup watchdog to actually work Ingo Molnar
2007-07-17 17:03 ` Randy Dunlap
2007-07-17 17:25 ` Ingo Molnar
2007-07-17 18:14 ` Linus Torvalds
2007-07-17 21:38 ` Randy Dunlap
2007-07-19 7:22 ` Andrew Morton
2007-07-19 7:46 ` Ingo Molnar
2007-07-19 7:51 ` Ingo Molnar
2007-07-19 14:31 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2007-07-19 14:35 ` Ingo Molnar
2007-07-19 14:40 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge [this message]
2007-07-19 14:46 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2007-07-19 14:50 ` Ingo Molnar
2007-07-19 15:04 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2007-07-19 15:09 ` Ingo Molnar
2007-07-19 15:21 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2007-07-19 15:42 ` [patch] sched: implement cpu_clock(cpu) high-speed time source Ingo Molnar
2007-07-19 15:44 ` [patch] sched: implement cpu_clock(cpu) high-speed time source, take #2 Ingo Molnar
2007-07-19 16:11 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2007-07-19 16:16 ` Ingo Molnar
2007-07-19 16:18 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2007-07-19 16:21 ` Ingo Molnar
2007-07-19 16:29 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2007-07-19 17:24 ` Jens Axboe
2007-07-19 18:10 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2007-07-19 18:20 ` Jens Axboe
2007-07-25 8:49 ` [patch] fix the softlockup watchdog to actually work Andrew Morton
2007-07-25 8:52 ` Ingo Molnar
2007-07-25 8:55 ` Ingo Molnar
2007-07-25 9:00 ` Andrew Morton
2007-07-25 9:04 ` Ingo Molnar
2007-07-25 9:17 ` Andrew Morton
2007-07-25 9:23 ` Ingo Molnar
2007-07-25 9:59 ` Jens Axboe
2007-07-25 11:04 ` Ingo Molnar
2007-07-25 11:06 ` Jens Axboe
2007-07-25 16:34 ` Andi Kleen
2007-10-03 23:49 ` Yinghai Lu
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