Re: [PATCH 5/6] Account ksoftirq time as cpustat softirq

[Peter Zijlstra]

On Wed, 2010-10-20 at 15:49 -0700, Venkatesh Pallipadi wrote:
> @@ -1979,15 +1980,20 @@ void account_system_vtime(struct task_struct *curr)
>         delta = now - per_cpu(irq_start_time, cpu);
>         per_cpu(irq_start_time, cpu) = now;
>         /*
> -        * We do not account for softirq time from ksoftirqd here.
>          * We want to continue accounting softirq time to ksoftirqd thread
>          * in that case, so as not to confuse scheduler with a special task
>          * that do not consume any time, but still wants to run.
> +        * So, softirq time in ksoftirqd is accounted separately and used
> +        * for softirq time reporting in /proc/stat.
>          */
> -       if (in_irq())
> +       if (in_irq()) {
>                 per_cpu(cpu_hardirq_time, cpu) += delta;
> -       else if (in_serving_softirq() && !(is_ksoftirqd_context()))
> -               per_cpu(cpu_softirq_time, cpu) += delta;
> +       } else if (in_serving_softirq()) {
> +               if (is_ksoftirqd_context())
> +                       per_cpu(cpu_ksoftirqd_time, cpu) += delta;
> +               else
> +                       per_cpu(cpu_softirq_time, cpu) += delta;
> +       }
>  
>         local_irq_restore(flags);
>  }
> @@ -2025,7 +2031,9 @@ static int irqtime_account_si_update(void)
>         int ret = 0;
>  
>         local_irq_save(flags);
> -       latest_ns = __get_cpu_var(cpu_softirq_time);
> +       latest_ns = __get_cpu_var(cpu_softirq_time) +
> +                       __get_cpu_var(cpu_ksoftirqd_time); 

wouldn't something like:

	latest_ns = this_cpu_read(cpu_softirq_time) +
		this_softirq_task()->se.sum_exec_runtime;

be easier?


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