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| author | Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> | 2012-06-22 15:52:09 +0200 |
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| committer | Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk> | 2012-07-25 04:11:09 +0100 |
| commit | d9a5888a4162d8e06eb909d31cbe5c779c8b67dc (patch) | |
| tree | 3100123bf2562cb0fd8eb721e95b858fe9a70b72 /crypto/api.c | |
| parent | 43fc6bce37ff39ab5010afadf1ea86e7cc9c2b37 (diff) | |
sched/nohz: Rewrite and fix load-avg computation -- again
commit 5167e8d5417bf5c322a703d2927daec727ea40dd upstream.
Thanks to Charles Wang for spotting the defects in the current code:
- If we go idle during the sample window -- after sampling, we get a
negative bias because we can negate our own sample.
- If we wake up during the sample window we get a positive bias
because we push the sample to a known active period.
So rewrite the entire nohz load-avg muck once again, now adding
copious documentation to the code.
Reported-and-tested-by: Doug Smythies <dsmythies@telus.net>
Reported-and-tested-by: Charles Wang <muming.wq@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1340373782.18025.74.camel@twins
[ minor edits ]
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
[bwh: Backported to 3.2: adjust filenames, context]
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
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