Re: [PATCH] Instrumenting high latency

[William Lee Irwin III]

On Mon, 2004-07-12 at 09:34, Andrew Morton wrote:
>> so if need_resched() stays false then this will hold the lock for a long
>> time and bogus reports are generated:

On Mon, Jul 12, 2004 at 10:29:40AM +0200, Arjan van de Ven wrote:
> ... or reset the time(r) in need_resched() under the assumption that all
> need_resched() callers will yield when it returns true...

Might be a good enough approximation. Two examples and a counterexample...


-- wli
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