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Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/2] iowait and idle fixes in /proc/stat
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From:   Tom Hromatka <tom.hromatka@oracle.com>
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Date:   Tue, 14 Jul 2020 12:55:41 -0600
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Ping.

Thanks.

Tom


On 6/10/20 3:05 PM, Tom Hromatka wrote:
> A customer is using /proc/stat to track cpu usage in a VM and noted
> that the iowait and idle times behave strangely when a cpu goes
> offline and comes back online.
>
> This patchset addresses two issues that can cause iowait and idle
> to fluctuate up and down.  With these changes, cpu iowait and idle
> now only monotonically increase.
>
> Tom Hromatka (2):
>    tick-sched: Do not clear the iowait and idle times
>    /proc/stat: Simplify iowait and idle calculations when cpu is offline
>
>   fs/proc/stat.c           | 24 ++++++------------------
>   kernel/time/tick-sched.c |  9 +++++++++
>   2 files changed, 15 insertions(+), 18 deletions(-)
>