linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2] Move calc_load call out from xtime

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Date:	Sat, 11 Apr 2009 20:57:05 +0200 (CEST)
From:	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
To:	Dimitri Sivanich <sivanich@....com>
cc:	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>, john stultz <johnstul@...ibm.com>,
	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] Move calc_load call out from xtime_lock protection

Dimitri,

On Sat, 11 Apr 2009, Dimitri Sivanich wrote:
> > 
> > /me goes back to stare a bit more at the avenrun stuff
> > 
> Also, if my patch gets replaced by this, you might want to avoid
> saving intermediate results in calc_load, as my patch attempts to
> do.

Good point. Thanks for the reminder.

     tglx
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