Re: [PATCH] Prezeroing V8 + free_hot_zeroed_page + free_cold_zeroed page

[Nish Aravamudan <nish.aravamudan@gmail.com>]

On Thu, 17 Mar 2005 18:09:11 -0800 (PST), Christoph Lameter
<clameter@sgi.com> wrote:
> On Thu, 17 Mar 2005, Jason Uhlenkott wrote:
> 
> > On Thu, Mar 17, 2005 at 05:36:50PM -0800, Christoph Lameter wrote:
> > > +        while (avenrun[0] >= ((unsigned long)sysctl_scrub_load << FSHIFT)) {
> > > +           set_current_state(TASK_UNINTERRUPTIBLE);
> > > +           schedule_timeout(30*HZ);
> > > +   }
> >
> > This should probably be TASK_INTERRUPTIBLE.  It'll never actually get
> > interrupted either way since kernel threads block all signals, but
> > sleeping uninterruptibly contributes to the load average.
> 
> Correct. .... I just do not seem to be able to get this right.

I think msleep_interruptible(30000) would be your best choice, then. 
Maybe with a comment that you don't actually expect signals, but are
using TASK_INTERRUPTIBLE to avoid contributing to load average (that
way, if the loadavg calculation changes someday, somebody will be able
to change your sleep over appropriately).

Thanks,
Nish