Re: Bisected softirq accounting issue in v4.11-rc1~170^2~28

From: Frederic Weisbecker
Date: Tue Mar 28 2017 - 09:06:34 EST


On Tue, Mar 28, 2017 at 02:26:42PM +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 28, 2017 at 06:34:52PM +0800, Wanpeng Li wrote:
> >
> > sched_clock_cpu(cpu) should be converted from cputime to ns.
>
> Uhm, no. sched_clock_cpu() returns u64 in ns.

Yes, and most of the cputime_t have been converted to u64 so there
should be no such conversion issue between u64 and cputime_t anymore.

Perhaps my commit has another side effect on softirq time accounting,
I'll see if I can reproduce.