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From: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
To: Xunlei Pang <xlpang@linux.alibaba.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>,
	Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@kernel.org>,
	Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>,
	baoyou.xie@gmail.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] sched/cputime: Ensure accurate utime and stime ratio in cputime_adjust()
Date: Mon, 16 Jul 2018 15:35:06 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20180716133506.GB2494@hirez.programming.kicks-ass.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20180709145843.126583-1-xlpang@linux.alibaba.com>

On Mon, Jul 09, 2018 at 10:58:43PM +0800, Xunlei Pang wrote:
> If users access "/proc/pid/stat", the utime and stime ratio in the
> current SAMPLE period are excepted, but currently cputime_adjust()
> always calculates with the ratio of the WHOLE lifetime of the process.
> 
> This results in inaccurate utime and stime in "/proc/pid/stat". For
> example,  a process runs for a while with "50% usr, 0% sys", then
> followed by "100% sys". For later while, the following is excepted:
>   0.0 usr,  100.0 sys
> but we got:
>   10.0 usr,  90.0 sys
> 
> This patch uses the accurate ratio in cputime_adjust() to address the
> issue. A new task_cputime type field is added in prev_cputime to record
> previous task_cputime so that we can get the elapsed times as the accurate
> ratio.

This still does not explain anything...

      parent reply	other threads:[~2018-07-16 13:35 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-07-09 14:58 [PATCH v2] sched/cputime: Ensure accurate utime and stime ratio in cputime_adjust() Xunlei Pang
2018-07-15 23:36 ` [tip:sched/core] " tip-bot for Xunlei Pang
2018-07-16 13:37   ` Peter Zijlstra
2018-07-16 16:11     ` Frederic Weisbecker
2018-07-16 17:41     ` Ingo Molnar
2018-07-17  4:08       ` Xunlei Pang
2018-07-23  9:21         ` Peter Zijlstra
2018-07-24 13:28           ` Xunlei Pang
2018-07-16 13:35 ` Peter Zijlstra [this message]

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