Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S964954AbZGQQsQ (ORCPT ); Fri, 17 Jul 2009 12:48:16 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S964939AbZGQQsP (ORCPT ); Fri, 17 Jul 2009 12:48:15 -0400 Received: from casper.infradead.org ([85.118.1.10]:45773 "EHLO casper.infradead.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S934732AbZGQQsO (ORCPT ); Fri, 17 Jul 2009 12:48:14 -0400 Subject: Re: [patch 2/2] sched: fix nr_uninterruptible accounting of frozen tasks really From: Peter Zijlstra To: Matt Helsley Cc: Thomas Gleixner , LKML , Andrew Morton , Rafael Wysocki , Ingo Molnar , Nathan Lynch , Nigel Cunningham , stable@kernel.org, containers@lists.linux-foundation.org, linux-pm@lists.linux-foundation.org In-Reply-To: <20090717152235.GA5878@count0.beaverton.ibm.com> References: <20090717121545.489258927@linutronix.de> <20090717122103.225652146@linutronix.de> <1247833910.15751.61.camel@twins> <20090717152235.GA5878@count0.beaverton.ibm.com> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Fri, 17 Jul 2009 18:47:34 +0200 Message-Id: <1247849254.6522.75.camel@laptop> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.26.1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 641 Lines: 16 On Fri, 2009-07-17 at 08:22 -0700, Matt Helsley wrote: > The job scheduler in question does not use FROZEN as a transient state and > does not use checkpoint/restart at all since c/r is still a work in progress. > Even when used for power management it seems wrong to count frozen tasks > towards the loadavg since they aren't using CPU time or waiting for IO. You're abusing it for _WHAT_? -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/