Re: [patch 2/2] sched: fix nr_uninterruptible accounting of frozentasks really

From: Peter Zijlstra
Date: Fri Jul 17 2009 - 12:48:21 EST


On Fri, 2009-07-17 at 08:22 -0700, Matt Helsley wrote:

> The job scheduler in question does not use FROZEN as a transient state and
> does not use checkpoint/restart at all since c/r is still a work in progress.
> Even when used for power management it seems wrong to count frozen tasks
> towards the loadavg since they aren't using CPU time or waiting for IO.

You're abusing it for _WHAT_?



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