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    sched, delay accounting: fix incorrect delay time when constantly waiting on runqueue · d4abc238
    Bharath Ravi 提交于
    This patch corrects the incorrect value of per process run-queue wait
    time reported by delay statistics. The anomaly was due to the following
    reason. When a process leaves the CPU and immediately starts waiting for
    CPU on the runqueue (which means it remains in the TASK_RUNNABLE state),
    the time of re-entry into the run-queue is never recorded. Due to this,
    the waiting time on the runqueue from this point of re-entry upto the
    next time it hits the CPU is not accounted for. This is solved by
    recording the time of re-entry of a process leaving the CPU in the
    sched_info_depart() function IF the process will go back to waiting on
    the run-queue. This IF condition is verified by checking whether the
    process is still in the TASK_RUNNABLE state.
    
    The patch was tested on 2.6.26-rc6 using two simple CPU hog programs.
    The values noted prior to the fix did not account for the time spent on
    the runqueue waiting. After the fix, the correct values were reported
    back to user space.
    Signed-off-by: NBharath Ravi <bharathravi1@gmail.com>
    Signed-off-by: NMadhava K R  <madhavakr@gmail.com>
    Cc: dhaval@linux.vnet.ibm.com
    Cc: vatsa@in.ibm.com
    Cc: balbir@in.ibm.com
    Acked-by: NPeter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
    Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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