From: Frederik Himpe <fhimpe@telenet.be>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org, linux-usb-devel@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] Fix hardware IRQ time accounting problem.
Date: Wed, 5 Dec 2007 11:39:25 +0000 (UTC) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <fj62ld$6eo$1@ger.gmane.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 20071204055144.GR24243@bakeyournoodle.com
On Tue, 04 Dec 2007 16:51:44 +1100, Tony Breeds wrote:
> The commit fa13a5a1f25f671d084d8884be96fc48d9b68275 (sched: restore
> deterministic CPU accounting on powerpc), unconditionally calls
> update_process_tick() in system context. In the deterministic
> accounting case this is the correct thing to do. However, in the
> non-deterministic accounting case we need to not do this, and results in
> the time accounted as hardware irq time being artificially elevated.
>
> Also this patch collapses 2 consecutive '#ifdef
> CONFIG_VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING' checks in time.h into one for neatness.
I can confirm this patch fixed the problem for me. Thank you!
--
Frederik Himpe
prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-12-05 11:39 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-12-04 5:51 [PATCH v2] Fix hardware IRQ time accounting problem Tony Breeds
2007-12-04 16:44 ` Johannes Berg
2007-12-05 11:39 ` Frederik Himpe [this message]
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