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From: Pingfan Liu <kernelfans@gmail.com>
To: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>,
	Juri Lelli <juri.lelli@redhat.com>,
	Vincent Guittot <vincent.guittot@linaro.org>,
	Dietmar Eggemann <dietmar.eggemann@arm.com>,
	Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>,
	Ben Segall <bsegall@google.com>, Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
	Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>, Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>,
	"Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@kernel.org>,
	Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@kernel.org>,
	Allen Pais <allen.lkml@gmail.com>,
	Romain Perier <romain.perier@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] sched/cputime: correct account of irqtime
Date: Thu, 15 Oct 2020 09:27:44 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAFgQCTvrEdk6WOEpJOX1_Q64PmjvpHq2qrWo_1d_4NBnus+7Fw@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20201014130223.GF2628@hirez.programming.kicks-ass.net>

On Wed, Oct 14, 2020 at 9:02 PM Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> wrote:
>
> On Mon, Oct 12, 2020 at 09:50:44PM +0800, Pingfan Liu wrote:
> > __do_softirq() may be interrupted by hardware interrupts. In this case,
> > irqtime_account_irq() will account the time slice as CPUTIME_SOFTIRQ by
> > mistake.
> >
> > By passing irqtime_account_irq() an extra param about either hardirq or
> > softirq, irqtime_account_irq() can handle the above case.
>
> I'm not sure I see the scenario in which it goes wrong.
>
> irqtime_account_irq() is designed such that we're called with the old
> preempt_count on enter and the new preempt_count on exit. This way we'll
> accumuate the delta to the previous context.
>
Oops! You are right, the time delta between a softirq and a
interrupting hardirq should be accounted into the softrq.

Thanks for your clear explanation.

Regards,
Pingfan

      reply	other threads:[~2020-10-15  1:27 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-10-12 13:50 [PATCH] sched/cputime: correct account of irqtime Pingfan Liu
2020-10-13  3:10 ` jun qian
2020-10-13  4:22   ` Pingfan Liu
2020-10-14 13:02 ` Peter Zijlstra
2020-10-15  1:27   ` Pingfan Liu [this message]

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