Re: driver or calculation of load average wrong ?

[Greg KH]

On Mon, Oct 11, 2010 at 08:24:49AM +0200, Frank Salomon wrote:
> Hello All,
>
> I have the following configuration:
> - CentOS 5
> - kernel 2.6.20.1
> - My own driver in a kernel_thread:
> 		while ( 1 ){
> 			printk ( KERN_INFO "go sleep, %lu\n", jiffies );
> 			current -> state = TASK_UNINTERRUPTIBLE;
> 			schedule_timeout ( msecs_to_jiffies(4000) );

Change this to schedule_timeout_interruptable() and your load average
calculation will go back to what you expect it to.

hope this helps,

greg k-h
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