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From: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
To: Xunlei Pang <xlpang@linux.alibaba.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>,
	Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@kernel.org>,
	Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] sched/cputime: Ensure correct utime and stime proportion
Date: Thu, 5 Jul 2018 12:46:32 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20180705104632.GE2494@hirez.programming.kicks-ass.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <e1b69cf9-a3a7-ea67-7c0e-d67ac81f29f1@linux.alibaba.com>

On Wed, Jun 27, 2018 at 08:22:42PM +0800, Xunlei Pang wrote:
> tick-based whole utime is utime_0, tick-based whole stime
> is stime_0, scheduler time is rtime_0. 

> For a long time, the process runs mainly in userspace with
> run-sleep patterns, and because two different clocks, it
> is possible to have the following condition:
>   rtime_0 < utime_0 (as with little stime_0)

I don't follow... what?

Why are you, and why do you think it makes sense to, compare rtime_0
against utime_0 ?

The [us]time_0 are, per your earlier definition, ticks. They're not an
actual measure of time. Do not compare the two, that makes no bloody
sense.

  reply	other threads:[~2018-07-05 10:46 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-06-22  7:15 [PATCH] sched/cputime: Ensure correct utime and stime proportion Xunlei Pang
2018-06-22 10:35 ` kbuild test robot
2018-06-25  8:14   ` Xunlei Pang
2018-06-26 12:19 ` Xunlei Pang
2018-06-26 15:49   ` Peter Zijlstra
2018-06-27 12:22     ` Xunlei Pang
2018-07-05 10:46       ` Peter Zijlstra [this message]
2018-07-05 13:21         ` Xunlei Pang
2018-07-05 13:42           ` Peter Zijlstra
2018-07-05 13:58             ` xunlei
2018-07-09 10:47               ` Peter Zijlstra
2018-07-09  5:52           ` Xunlei Pang
2018-07-09 10:48             ` Peter Zijlstra
2018-07-09 15:00               ` Xunlei Pang
2018-07-02 15:21     ` Tejun Heo
2018-07-04  6:56       ` Xunlei Pang

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