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From: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
To: Nikolay Borisov <kernel@kyup.com>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: peterz@infradead.org, mingo@kernel.org, pbonzini@redhat.com,
	fweisbec@redhat.com, wanpeng.li@hotmail.com, efault@gmx.de,
	tglx@linutronix.de, rkrcmar@redhat.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 0/4] sched,time: fix irq time accounting with nohz_idle
Date: Tue, 05 Jul 2016 09:09:04 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1467724144.17336.42.camel@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <577BAFF1.6080806@kyup.com>

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On Tue, 2016-07-05 at 16:02 +0300, Nikolay Borisov wrote:
> 
> On 06/30/2016 10:35 PM, riel@redhat.com wrote:
> > Currently irq time accounting only works in these cases:
> > 1) purely ticke based accounting
> > 2) nohz_full accounting, but only on housekeeping & nohz_full CPUs
> > 3) architectures with native vtime accounting
> > 
> > On nohz_idle CPUs, which are probably the majority nowadays,
> > irq time accounting is currently broken. This leads to systems
> > reporting a dramatically lower amount of irq & softirq time than
> > is actually spent handling them, with all the time spent while the
> > system is in the idle task being accounted as idle.
> 
> Is this supposed to alleviate the issue reported here:
> http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/linux/kernel/2169180

Indeed, it is.

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      reply	other threads:[~2016-07-05 13:09 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-06-30 19:35 [PATCH v3 0/4] sched,time: fix irq time accounting with nohz_idle riel
2016-06-30 19:35 ` [PATCH 1/4] sched,time: count actually elapsed irq & softirq time riel
2016-07-05 12:40   ` Frederic Weisbecker
2016-07-05 13:08     ` Rik van Riel
2016-07-05 14:00       ` Frederic Weisbecker
2016-07-05 16:47     ` [PATCH v3 " Rik van Riel
2016-07-06 14:15       ` Frederic Weisbecker
2016-06-30 19:35 ` [PATCH 2/4] nohz,cputime: replace VTIME_GEN irq time code with IRQ_TIME_ACCOUNTING code riel
2016-06-30 19:35 ` [PATCH 3/4] irqtime: add irq type parameter to irqtime_account_irq riel
2016-06-30 19:35 ` [PATCH 4/4] irqtime: drop local_irq_save/restore from irqtime_account_irq riel
2016-07-08 12:30   ` Frederic Weisbecker
2016-07-08 13:19     ` Rik van Riel
2016-07-08 14:01       ` Frederic Weisbecker
2016-07-08 14:34       ` Paolo Bonzini
2016-07-08 15:56         ` Rik van Riel
2016-07-08 23:58           ` Frederic Weisbecker
2016-07-05 13:02 ` [PATCH v3 0/4] sched,time: fix irq time accounting with nohz_idle Nikolay Borisov
2016-07-05 13:09   ` Rik van Riel [this message]

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