Re: [PATCH v5 3/3] sched/cputime: Add steal time support to full dynticks CPU time accounting

From: Wanpeng Li
Date: Wed Jun 08 2016 - 19:58:09 EST


2016-06-09 3:05 GMT+08:00 Rik van Riel <riel@xxxxxxxxxx>:
> On Wed, 2016-06-08 at 11:05 +0800, Wanpeng Li wrote:
>>
>> @@ -681,12 +681,17 @@ static cputime_t vtime_delta(struct task_struct
>> *tsk)
>> static cputime_t get_vtime_delta(struct task_struct *tsk)
>> {
>> unsigned long now = READ_ONCE(jiffies);
>> - unsigned long delta = now - tsk->vtime_snap;
>> + cputime_t delta_time, steal_time;
>>
>> + steal_time =
>> jiffies_to_cputime(steal_account_process_tick());
>> + delta_time = jiffies_to_cputime(now - tsk->vtime_snap);
>> WARN_ON_ONCE(tsk->vtime_snap_whence == VTIME_INACTIVE);
>> tsk->vtime_snap = now;
>>
>> - return jiffies_to_cputime(delta);
>> + if (steal_time < delta_time)
>> + delta_time -= steal_time;
>> +
>> + return delta_time;
>> }
>
> This isn't right.
>
> If steal_time is equal to or larger than delta_time,
> get_vtime_delta needs to return 0, not delta_time.
>
> Otherwise the same time will be counted twice.

Paolo also pointed out this yesterday, so his proposal looks good to you, right?

Regards,
Wanpeng Li