Re: [accounting regression since rc1] scheduler updates

Ingo Molnar
2007-08-21T11:16:17Z

* Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@de.ibm.com> wrote:

> Am Dienstag, 21. August 2007 schrieb Ingo Molnar:
> > the 'invariant' i mentioned only covers scheduler behavior, not
> > accounting behavior. Accounting is separate in theory, but coupled in
> > practice now via sum_exec_runtime.
>
> Forgot to answer about that: That means that the current design does
> not cover our requirement of showing process real time, even if we
> implement sched_clock? In that case I would suggest to merge my patch
> as a quick but correct solution and do it properly for 2.6.24. Of
> course better solutions are welcome :-)

you mean to revert b27f03d4bd? I'd really like to see this fixed for
real for s390 + CONFIG_VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING=y. (which seems to be the
only case affected)

Ingo