sched/nohz: Rewrite and fix load-avg computation -- again

Thanks to Charles Wang for spotting the defects in the current code:

 - If we go idle during the sample window -- after sampling, we get a
   negative bias because we can negate our own sample.

 - If we wake up during the sample window we get a positive bias
   because we push the sample to a known active period.

So rewrite the entire nohz load-avg muck once again, now adding
copious documentation to the code.

Reported-and-tested-by: Doug Smythies <dsmythies@telus.net>
Reported-and-tested-by: Charles Wang <muming.wq@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1340373782.18025.74.camel@twins
[ minor edits ]
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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Peter Zijlstra
2012-06-22 15:52:09 +02:00
committed by Ingo Molnar
parent 164c33c6ad
commit 5167e8d541
5 changed files with 214 additions and 76 deletions

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@@ -25,7 +25,6 @@ static void check_preempt_curr_idle(struct rq *rq, struct task_struct *p, int fl
static struct task_struct *pick_next_task_idle(struct rq *rq)
{
schedstat_inc(rq, sched_goidle);
calc_load_account_idle(rq);
return rq->idle;
}