Re: proc/stat: idle goes backward

[Frederic Weisbecker]

On Fri, Aug 16, 2013 at 05:13:39PM +0200, Oleg Nesterov wrote:
> On 08/16, Frederic Weisbecker wrote:
> >
> > On Fri, Aug 16, 2013 at 04:47:04PM +0200, Oleg Nesterov wrote:
> > >
> > > Questions:
> > >
> > > 	- Any other reason why it can be non-monotonic?
> > >
> > > 	- Should we fix this or should we document that userspace
> > > 	  should handle this itself?
> > >
> > > 	  IOW, is this is bug or not?
> >
> > I don't know if we want to fix it (I personally think we should because it is not the
> > first time I hear complains about this) but if we do, here is a possible fix:
> >
> > https://lkml.org/lkml/2013/8/8/638
> 
> Thanks! it is not easy to read the patches on lkml.org and I do
> not understand this code enough. But it seems that this should
> address my concerns, including the "even ignoring drivers/cpuidle/".
> 
> Except, I am not sure that these changes handle the case when
> nr_iowait() change in between.

Yeah it handles iowait and idle sleeps.

> 
> Are you going to resend?

I'm more than happy that you want to review these patches.
I'm resending.

Thanks.

> 
> Oleg.
> 
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