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From: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
To: Xie XiuQi <xiexiuqi@huawei.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>,
	"linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	stable@vger.kernel.org, Li Zefan <lizefan@huawei.com>,
	Zhang Hang <bob.zhanghang@huawei.com>,
	Li Bin <huawei.libin@huawei.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] sched: fix cpu utilization account error
Date: Tue, 02 Jul 2013 05:07:54 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1372734474.7363.66.camel@marge.simpson.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <51D16777.5000703@huawei.com>

On Mon, 2013-07-01 at 19:26 +0800, Xie XiuQi wrote:

> Here is the kthread main logic. Although it's not a good idea, but it does
> exist:

Why not fix this instead?

> while (!kthread_should_stop()) {
> 	/* call schedule every 1 sec */
> 	if (HZ <= jiffies - last) {
> 		last = jiffies;
> 		schedule();
> 	}

Hanging out in the kernel for ages is not cool.  That doesn't mean
something else might not pop up that forces the issue, but to date it
has not, and sacrificing precious fastpath cycles is not attractive.

-Mike


  parent reply	other threads:[~2013-07-02  3:08 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-07-01  6:45 Xie XiuQi
2013-07-01  7:36 ` Mike Galbraith
2013-07-01 11:26   ` Xie XiuQi
2013-07-01 11:43     ` Mike Galbraith
2013-07-02  3:07     ` Mike Galbraith [this message]
2013-07-02  4:11       ` Xie XiuQi
2013-07-02  3:20     ` Michael Wang
2013-07-02  4:15       ` Xie XiuQi
2013-07-01 15:19 ` Greg KH
2013-07-02  1:41   ` Xie XiuQi

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