Scheduler accounting inflated for io bound processes.

[Dave Chiluk]

Running the below testcase shows each process consuming 41-43% of it's
respective cpu while per core idle numbers show 63-65%, a disparity of
roughly 4-8%.  Is this a bug, known behaviour, or consequence of the
process being io bound?

1. run sudo taskset -c 0 netserver
2. run taskset -c 1 netperf -H localhost -l 3600 -t TCP_RR & (start
netperf with priority on cpu1)
3. run top, press 1 for multiple CPUs to be separated

The below output is the top output notice the cpu0 idle at 67% when the
processes claim 42% usage a roughly 9% discrepancy.

------------------------------------------------
top - 19:27:38 up  4:08,  2 users,  load average: 0.45, 0.19, 0.13
Tasks:  85 total,   2 running,  83 sleeping,   0 stopped,   0 zombie
%Cpu0  :  0.8 us, 15.4 sy,  0.0 ni, 66.7 id,  0.0 wa,  0.0 hi, 17.1 si,
 0.0 st
%Cpu1  :  0.8 us, 17.3 sy,  0.0 ni, 63.1 id,  0.0 wa,  0.0 hi, 18.8 si,
 0.0 st
KiB Mem:   4049180 total,   252952 used,  3796228 free,    23108 buffers
KiB Swap:        0 total,        0 used,        0 free,   132932 cached

  PID USER      PR  NI  VIRT  RES  SHR S  %CPU %MEM    TIME+  COMMAND

 6150 root      20   0  9756  700  536 R  42.6  0.0   0:48.90 netserver

 6149 ubuntu    20   0 11848 1056  852 S  42.2  0.0   0:48.92 netperf
------------------------------------------------

The above testcase was run on 3.10-rc6.

So is this a bug or can someone explain to me why this isn't a bug?

The related ubuntu bug is
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/1193073
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