Re: delayacct regression in 2.6.24 git

[Balbir Singh <balbir@linux.vnet.ibm.com>]

Ingo Molnar wrote:
> * Balbir Singh <balbir@linux.vnet.ibm.com> wrote:
> 
>> Hi, Ingo,
>>
>> I missed commit 75d4ef16a6aa84f708188bada182315f80aab6fa
>> "sched: fix delay accounting performance regression"
>>
>> Without these changes, I find that delay accounting does
>> not work as expected, I see zeros in the field for virtual,delay
>> and count(s).
>>
>> CPU             count     real total  virtual total    delay total
>>                     0      535861848              0              0
>>
>>
>> This breaks existing delay accounting behaviour.
>>
>> Am I missing something?
> 
> delay accounting was causing context-switch slowdown because it called 
> sched_clock() explicitly - but indeed my fix to that is wrong ...
> 
> how about reverting the change but also using rq->clock instead of 
> sched_clock()?

Hmm... I think that might work, I find that schedule() calls
__update_rq_clock() which in turn calls sched_clock(), so it
might be a worthwhile optimization.

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	Balbir Singh
	Linux Technology Center
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