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From: Glauber Costa <glommer@parallels.com>
To: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>, <xemul@parallels.com>,
	<paul@paulmenage.org>, <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>,
	<daniel.lezcano@free.fr>, <mingo@elte.hu>,
	<jbottomley@parallels.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 8/9] per-cgroup boot time
Date: Tue, 20 Sep 2011 10:06:25 -0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4E788FD1.40301@parallels.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1316523860.13664.11.camel@twins>

On 09/20/2011 10:04 AM, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> On Tue, 2011-09-20 at 09:37 -0300, Glauber Costa wrote:
>
>>>> +	getboottime(&boottime);
>>>> +	ts = timespec_add(boottime, ca->start_time);
>>>> +	jif = ts.tv_sec;
>>>>
>>>>    	for_each_possible_cpu(i) {
>>>>    		cpustat = per_cpu_ptr(ca->cpustat, i);
>>>
>>>
>>> I'm confused, what does it do? You take a boot time timestamp at cgroup
>>> creation, add that to all boot-time readings and print the result. How
>>> does that make sense? Subtracting the start_time, maybe, that would make
>>> the cgroup creation time 0, adding, not so much.
>>
>> Boot time represent at which times the machine was booted. In this
>> context, at which time the container/cgroup was created. So it have to
>> be an addition.... don't really understand your question
>
> I think we're all properly confused now :-)
>
> getboottime() gives a time since boot, right?
>
> You take stamp at cgroup creation: say 50s after boot.
>
> Then on usage you take a new getboottime() reading (which per definition
> is>  50s) and add your 50s that you read previous. This results in the
> cgroup having 50s of boot-time _MORE_ than the machine. Say you read at
> 123s, you then add your 50s timestamp, resulting in 173s to report.
>
> If instead you did a subtraction: 123-50=73, you would have reported the
> time since cgroup creation.
>
no.

/**
  * getboottime - Return the real time of system boot.
  * @ts:         pointer to the timespec to be set
  *
  * Returns the wall-time of boot in a timespec.
...

  reply	other threads:[~2011-09-20 13:07 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 58+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-09-14 20:04 [PATCH 0/9] Per-cgroup /proc/stat Glauber Costa
2011-09-14 20:04 ` [PATCH 1/9] Remove parent field in cpuacct cgroup Glauber Costa
2011-09-19 16:03   ` Peter Zijlstra
2011-09-19 16:09     ` Glauber Costa
2011-09-19 16:19       ` Peter Zijlstra
2011-09-19 16:30         ` Glauber Costa
2011-09-19 16:39           ` Peter Zijlstra
2011-09-19 16:41             ` Glauber Costa
2011-09-19 18:40               ` Peter Zijlstra
2011-09-20 17:29                 ` Srivatsa Vaddagiri
2011-09-22 15:11                   ` Balbir Singh
2011-09-22 15:17                     ` Peter Zijlstra
2011-09-23  8:09                       ` Balbir Singh
2011-09-23 14:35                         ` Peter Zijlstra
2011-09-23 15:45                         ` Glauber Costa
2011-09-19 18:35           ` Peter Zijlstra
2011-09-19 18:38             ` Glauber Costa
2011-09-19 18:44               ` Peter Zijlstra
2011-09-19 19:14                 ` Glauber Costa
2011-09-19 19:18                   ` Peter Zijlstra
2011-09-19 19:19                     ` Glauber Costa
2011-09-14 20:04 ` [PATCH 2/9] Make cpuacct fields per cpu variables Glauber Costa
2011-09-19 16:10   ` Peter Zijlstra
2011-09-14 20:04 ` [PATCH 3/9] Include nice values in cpuacct Glauber Costa
2011-09-19 16:19   ` Peter Zijlstra
2011-09-19 16:26     ` Glauber Costa
2011-09-19 18:36       ` Peter Zijlstra
2011-09-19 18:37         ` Glauber Costa
2011-09-14 20:04 ` [PATCH 4/9] Include irq and softirq fields " Glauber Costa
2011-09-19 18:38   ` Peter Zijlstra
2011-09-19 18:40     ` Glauber Costa
2011-09-14 20:04 ` [PATCH 5/9] Include guest " Glauber Costa
2011-09-14 20:04 ` [PATCH 6/9] Include idle and iowait " Glauber Costa
2011-09-20  9:21   ` Peter Zijlstra
2011-09-20 12:36     ` Glauber Costa
2011-09-20 12:58       ` Peter Zijlstra
2011-09-20 12:58         ` Glauber Costa
2011-09-20 13:05           ` Peter Zijlstra
2011-09-20 13:29             ` Glauber Costa
2011-09-14 20:04 ` [PATCH 7/9] Create cpuacct.proc.stat file Glauber Costa
2011-09-20  9:22   ` Peter Zijlstra
2011-09-20 12:22     ` Glauber Costa
2011-09-14 20:04 ` [PATCH 8/9] per-cgroup boot time Glauber Costa
2011-09-20  9:25   ` Peter Zijlstra
2011-09-20 12:37     ` Glauber Costa
2011-09-20 13:04       ` Peter Zijlstra
2011-09-20 13:06         ` Glauber Costa [this message]
2011-09-20 13:31           ` Peter Zijlstra
2011-09-14 20:04 ` [PATCH 9/9] Report steal time for cgroup Glauber Costa
2011-09-20  9:29   ` Peter Zijlstra
2011-09-14 20:13 ` [PATCH 0/9] Per-cgroup /proc/stat Peter Zijlstra
2011-09-14 20:20   ` Glauber Costa
2011-09-15  8:53     ` Peter Zijlstra
2011-09-14 20:23   ` Andi Kleen
2011-09-15  8:56     ` Peter Zijlstra
2011-09-19 23:07       ` Paul Turner
2011-09-20  8:33         ` Peter Zijlstra
2011-09-20 21:37         ` Glauber Costa

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