Re: [PATCH v2] cpuacct: VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING don't prevent percpu cputime count

From: KOSAKI Motohiro
Date: Thu Apr 30 2009 - 04:52:32 EST


> > > for (i = 0; i < CPUACCT_STAT_NSTATS; i++) {
> > > - s64 val = percpu_counter_read(&ca->cpustat[i]);
> > > + s64 val = percpu_counter_sum(&ca->cpustat[i]);
> > > val = cputime64_to_clock_t(val);
> > > cb->fill(cb, cpuacct_stat_desc[i], val);
> > > }
> >
> > What do the test results look like with this? I'll see if I can find
> > some time to test this patch. On a patch read level this seems much better
> > to me, Peter?
>
> I don't really fancy percpu_counter_sum() usage. I'm thinking its ok to
> degrate accuracy on larger machines and simply use
> percpu_counter_read().

I have same opinion with peter. Balbir, What do you think?



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