From: Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@gmail.com>
To: "Eibach, Dirk" <Eibach@gdsys.de>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: msleep() an load average
Date: Wed, 04 May 2011 15:37:15 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4DC1568B.2080004@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <48D3D52125C49B43AE880038E2E5314BB5BE9D@SRV101.gdsys.de>
On 05/04/2011 02:11 PM, Eibach, Dirk wrote:
> while(1) msleep_interruptible(1000);
>
> I appreciate their admiration, but still there are doubts in my mind: Is
> this code really any better?
Try to send it a signal, it will eat 100% of CPU without sleeping.
> Is the loadavg metric broken beyond repair?
No, this is expected behaviour. Uninterruptible sleeps count as I/O load.
regards,
--
js
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-05-04 13:37 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-05-04 12:11 Eibach, Dirk
2011-05-04 13:37 ` Jiri Slaby [this message]
2011-05-04 13:54 ` Eibach, Dirk
2011-05-04 14:30 ` Clemens Ladisch
2011-05-04 14:47 ` Eibach, Dirk
2011-05-04 13:47 ` Clemens Ladisch
2011-05-04 14:04 ` Eibach, Dirk
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