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From: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
To: Wanpeng Li <kernellwp@gmail.com>,
	"linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	kvm <kvm@vger.kernel.org>
Cc: Radim Krcmar <rkrcmar@redhat.com>,
	Wanpeng Li <wanpeng.li@hotmail.com>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>,
	"Peter Zijlstra (Intel)" <peterz@infradead.org>,
	Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
	Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Fw: [PATCH v4 2/3] sched/cputime: Fix prev steal time accouting during cpu hotplug
Date: Tue, 7 Jun 2016 13:53:26 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <0fd9638b-b0f7-156e-e314-bb32a4720773@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CANRm+Cxgx7LaP6Jq23xhzM2BSxKkuLpO6pjmzS-uK+58xSV6vQ@mail.gmail.com>



On 07/06/2016 13:50, Wanpeng Li wrote:
>> > I'm not sure this patch is necessary.  Instead you could just revert
>> > commit e9532e69b8d1.  The previous patch obviously makes it unnecessary
>> > to reset rq->prev_steal_time and rq->prev_steal_time_rq, and the reset
>> > of rq->prev_irq_time looks like a no-op to me.
> The reason why I'm not just simple revert it is that commit mentioned
> "steal is smaller than rq->prev_steal_time we end up with an insane
> large value which then gets added to rq->prev_steal_time, resulting in
> a permanent wreckage of the accounting."

With this patch, you go back to having underflow if steal is smaller
than rq->prev_steal_time.  The point is that it should never be smaller;
it was only smaller because of the bug that you are fixing in patch 1.

Thanks,

Paolo

 Though I didn't meet such
> scenario. So I just do what that commit really want to do.

  reply	other threads:[~2016-06-07 11:53 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
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2016-06-07 10:34   ` [PATCH v4 2/3] sched/cputime: Fix prev steal time accouting during cpu hotplug Paolo Bonzini
     [not found]     ` <SG2PR02MB15505ACED7653E515DE21620805D0@SG2PR02MB1550.apcprd02.prod.outlook.com>
2016-06-07 11:50       ` Fw: " Wanpeng Li
2016-06-07 11:53         ` Paolo Bonzini [this message]
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2016-06-07 10:47   ` [PATCH v4 3/3] sched/cputime: Add steal time support to full dynticks CPU time accounting Paolo Bonzini
2016-06-07 11:23     ` Wanpeng Li
2016-06-07 12:15     ` Wanpeng Li
2016-06-07 12:34       ` Paolo Bonzini

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