From 0f004f5a696a9434b7214d0d3cbd0525ee77d428 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Peter Zijlstra Date: Tue, 30 Nov 2010 19:48:45 +0100 Subject: sched: Cure more NO_HZ load average woes There's a long-running regression that proved difficult to fix and which is hitting certain people and is rather annoying in its effects. Damien reported that after 74f5187ac8 (sched: Cure load average vs NO_HZ woes) his load average is unnaturally high, he also noted that even with that patch reverted the load avgerage numbers are not correct. The problem is that the previous patch only solved half the NO_HZ problem, it addressed the part of going into NO_HZ mode, not of comming out of NO_HZ mode. This patch implements that missing half. When comming out of NO_HZ mode there are two important things to take care of: - Folding the pending idle delta into the global active count. - Correctly aging the averages for the idle-duration. So with this patch the NO_HZ interaction should be complete and behaviour between CONFIG_NO_HZ=[yn] should be equivalent. Furthermore, this patch slightly changes the load average computation by adding a rounding term to the fixed point multiplication. Reported-by: Damien Wyart Reported-by: Tim McGrath Tested-by: Damien Wyart Tested-by: Orion Poplawski Tested-by: Kyle McMartin Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra Cc: stable@kernel.org Cc: Chase Douglas LKML-Reference: <1291129145.32004.874.camel@laptop> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar --- kernel/timer.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) (limited to 'kernel/timer.c') diff --git a/kernel/timer.c b/kernel/timer.c index 68a9ae7..7bd715f 100644 --- a/kernel/timer.c +++ b/kernel/timer.c @@ -1319,7 +1319,7 @@ void do_timer(unsigned long ticks) { jiffies_64 += ticks; update_wall_time(); - calc_global_load(); + calc_global_load(ticks); } #ifdef __ARCH_WANT_SYS_ALARM -- cgit v1.1