Re: [PATCH v5 1/3] sched: Stop nohz stats when decayed

From: Valentin Schneider
Date: Wed Feb 21 2018 - 08:48:45 EST


On 02/21/2018 01:13 PM, Valentin Schneider wrote:
> On 02/16/2018 01:44 PM, Vincent Guittot wrote:
>> On 16 February 2018 at 13:13, Valentin Schneider
>> <valentin.schneider@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>>> On 02/14/2018 03:26 PM, Vincent Guittot wrote:
> BTW, with the current set on Peter's sched/testing, update_nohz_stats()
> is called here, which doesn't do the update if !rq->has_blocked_load
> (Although that check is done without lock/barrier, so maybe we could not see
> a CPU that just went idle ?)

Ignore that, that's another case of me being overly paranoid after reading
too much of Documentation/memory-barriers.txt