idle_balance() is called from schedule() right before we schedule the idle task. It needs to record the idle timestamp at that time and for this the rq clock must be accurate. If the CPU is running tickless we need to update the rq clock manually.
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweis...@gmail.com> Cc: Alessio Igor Bogani <abog...@kernel.org> Cc: Andrew Morton <a...@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Chris Metcalf <cmetc...@tilera.com> Cc: Christoph Lameter <c...@linux.com> Cc: Geoff Levand <ge...@infradead.org> Cc: Gilad Ben Yossef <gi...@benyossef.com> Cc: Hakan Akkan <hakanak...@gmail.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mi...@kernel.org> Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paul...@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortma...@windriver.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <pet...@infradead.org> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rost...@goodmis.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <t...@linutronix.de> --- kernel/sched/fair.c | 1 + 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) diff --git a/kernel/sched/fair.c b/kernel/sched/fair.c index e78d81104..698137d 100644 --- a/kernel/sched/fair.c +++ b/kernel/sched/fair.c @@ -5241,6 +5241,7 @@ void idle_balance(int this_cpu, struct rq *this_rq) int pulled_task = 0; unsigned long next_balance = jiffies + HZ; + update_nohz_rq_clock(this_rq); this_rq->idle_stamp = this_rq->clock; if (this_rq->avg_idle < sysctl_sched_migration_cost) -- 1.7.5.4 -- 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/