linux-kernel - Re: question about logic of steal_account_process

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Date:	Fri, 4 Mar 2016 14:47:24 -0600
From:	Chris Friesen <chris.friesen@...driver.com>
To:	lkml <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@...il.com>
Subject: Re: question about logic of steal_account_process_tick() ?

On 03/04/2016 01:51 PM, Chris Friesen wrote:

> The thing is, steal_account_process_tick() returns units of cputime, which I
> think is nanoseconds on x86_64.  So if we have a tiny amount of stolen time it
> seems like that will prevent a whole tick from being accounted into
> user/system/idle.
>
> I feel like I must be missing something here, can someone tell me what it is?

Looking at commit dee08a72 (from 2014) it seems like the units of the return 
value of steal_account_process_tick() changed from ticks to cputime_t.  I don't 
see an equivalent change in the logic in account_process_tick(), which seems to 
assume that a nonzero return value in steal_account_process_tick() means a whole 
tick has been stolen.

Was there a change to make paravirt_steal_clock() increment in ticks?  If not it 
seems like there's a unit mismatch here.

Chris