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From: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
To: "Lesław Kopeć" <leslaw.kopec@nasza-klasa.pl>
Cc: Aman Gupta <aman@tmm1.net>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	Chase Douglas <chase.douglas@canonical.com>,
	Damien Wyart <damien.wyart@free.fr>,
	Kyle McMartin <kyle@redhat.com>,
	Venkatesh Pallipadi <venki@google.com>,
	Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Inconsistent load average on tickless kernels
Date: Wed, 29 Feb 2012 18:03:18 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1330534998.11248.158.camel@twins> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1330532667.11248.153.camel@twins>

On Wed, 2012-02-29 at 17:24 +0100, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> 
> The only thing I could find is that on nohz we can confuse the per-rq
> sample period, does the below make a difference? 

Uhm, something like so that is.. 

---
 kernel/sched/core.c |    3 ++-
 1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

diff --git a/kernel/sched/core.c b/kernel/sched/core.c
index d7c4322..44f61df 100644
--- a/kernel/sched/core.c
+++ b/kernel/sched/core.c
@@ -2380,7 +2380,8 @@ static void calc_load_account_active(struct rq *this_rq)
 	if (delta)
 		atomic_long_add(delta, &calc_load_tasks);
 
-	this_rq->calc_load_update += LOAD_FREQ;
+	while (!time_before(jiffies, this_rq->calc_load_update))
+		this_rq->calc_load_update += LOAD_FREQ;
 }
 
 /*


  reply	other threads:[~2012-02-29 17:03 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-02-06  6:51 Inconsistent load average on tickless kernels Aman Gupta
2012-02-23 15:46 ` Lesław Kopeć
2012-02-29 12:06   ` Peter Zijlstra
2012-02-29 16:24     ` Peter Zijlstra
2012-02-29 17:03       ` Peter Zijlstra [this message]
2012-03-05 19:57         ` Lesław Kopeć
2012-03-05 22:45           ` Aman Gupta
2012-03-05 23:25             ` Peter Zijlstra
2012-03-05 23:32               ` Peter Zijlstra
2012-03-05 23:33                 ` Peter Zijlstra
2012-04-17 12:52                   ` Lesław Kopeć
2012-04-17 15:30                     ` Jonathan Nieder
2012-04-23 16:20                       ` Lesław Kopeć
2012-04-23 17:57                         ` Jonathan Nieder
2012-04-23 20:21                           ` Peter Zijlstra

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