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Date: Mon, 9 Apr 2007 02:23:32 +0200
From: "Dmitry Adamushko" <dmitry.adamushko@gmail.com>
To: "Mike Galbraith" <efault@gmx.de>
Subject: Re: SD scheduler testing hitch
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> [...]
> Well, it's a late hour, so maybe I'm missing something... but it does
> look to be HZ and "will run" time interval related issue. Like
> described in (*). Or maybe we both observe similar situations but have
> different reasons behind them.

I meant that account_user_time() is also called from timer_ISR ->
update_process_times() like scheduler_tick(). So if task's running
intervals are shorter than 1/HZ, it's not always accounted --> so cpu%
may be wrong for such a task...


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Best regards,
Dmitry Adamushko