From: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
To: Matt Helsley <matthltc@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
Rafael Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>,
Nathan Lynch <ntl@pobox.com>,
Nigel Cunningham <nigel@tuxonice.net>,
stable@kernel.org, containers@lists.linux-foundation.org,
linux-pm@lists.linux-foundation.org
Subject: Re: [patch 2/2] sched: fix nr_uninterruptible accounting of frozen tasks really
Date: Fri, 17 Jul 2009 17:55:27 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1247846127.6522.21.camel@laptop> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090717155116.GB5878@count0.beaverton.ibm.com>
On Fri, 2009-07-17 at 08:51 -0700, Matt Helsley wrote:
> So it's not clear to me how adding PF_FREEZING fixes anything. Am I
> missing something?
Yep, PF_FROZEN is only observed going into schedule(), on the way back
out thaw_process() will already have cleared the flag.
So we don't increment in deactivate_task(), but we do decrement in
activate_task(), yielding for some very unbalanced accounting.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-07-17 16:12 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-07-17 12:24 [patch 0/2] fix load average accounting Thomas Gleixner
2009-07-17 12:24 ` [patch 1/2] sched: fix load average accounting vs. cpu hotplug Thomas Gleixner
2009-07-17 12:25 ` [patch 2/2] sched: fix nr_uninterruptible accounting of frozen tasks really Thomas Gleixner
2009-07-17 12:31 ` Peter Zijlstra
2009-07-17 12:48 ` Thomas Gleixner
2009-07-17 22:26 ` Nigel Cunningham
2009-07-17 15:22 ` Matt Helsley
2009-07-17 16:47 ` Peter Zijlstra
2009-07-17 20:55 ` Nathan Lynch
2009-07-18 12:56 ` Peter Zijlstra
2009-07-18 23:59 ` Nathan Lynch
2009-07-17 15:51 ` Matt Helsley
2009-07-17 15:55 ` Peter Zijlstra [this message]
2009-07-17 16:20 ` Matt Helsley
2009-07-17 20:54 ` Nathan Lynch
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