RE: msleep() an load average

[Eibach, Dirk]

> > while(1) msleep_interruptible(1000);
> > 
> > I appreciate their admiration, but still there are doubts 
> in my mind: 
> > Is this code really any better?
> 
> Try to send it a signal, it will eat 100% of CPU without sleeping.

As I am a great kernel hacker, all signals are blocked ;)

> > Is the loadavg metric broken beyond repair?
> 
> No, this is expected behaviour. Uninterruptible sleeps count 
> as I/O load.

Ah, now we come to the point. Is there any practical reason behind this
or was it just an igenious invention to annoy those smug userspace
developers? I don't see any real world I/O load here.

> regards,
> --
> js

Cheers
Dirk


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