2013/4/27 Olivier Langlois <oliv...@trillion01.com>: > > > Forbids the cputimer to drift ahead of its process clock by > blocking its update when a tick occurs while a autoreaping task > is currently in do_exit() between the call to release_task() and > its final call to schedule(). > > Any task stats update after having called release_task() will > be lost because they are added to the global process stats located > in the signal struct from release_task(). > > Ideally, you should postpone the release_task() call after the > final context switch to get all the stats added but this is > more complex to achieve. > > In other words, this is slowing down the cputimer so it keep the same > pace than the process clock but in fact, what should be done is to > speed up the process clock by adding the missing stats to it. > > Signed-off-by: Olivier Langlois <oliv...@trillion01.com>
Thanks. Could you please resend these three patches in a new mail thread to make reviews easier? Also it would be nice to propose a different subject for each individual patch. Each of which describing what the patch does in a few words. Thanks. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
