linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] sched: cpuacct: Use bigger percpu counter batch values for stats counters

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Date:	Tue, 26 Jan 2010 08:44:15 +0900 (JST)
From:	KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@...fujitsu.com>
To:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:	kosaki.motohiro@...fujitsu.com, Anton Blanchard <anton@...ba.org>,
	Bharata B Rao <bharata@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>,
	Balbir Singh <balbir@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>, mingo@...hat.com,
	hpa@...or.com, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	a.p.zijlstra@...llo.nl, schwidefsky@...ibm.com,
	balajirrao@...il.com, dhaval@...ux.vnet.ibm.com,
	tglx@...utronix.de, kamezawa.hiroyu@...fujitsu.com,
	Tony Luck <tony.luck@...el.com>,
	Fenghua Yu <fenghua.yu@...el.com>,
	Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@...ibm.com>, linux390@...ibm.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] sched: cpuacct: Use bigger percpu counter batch values for stats counters

> On Mon, 18 Jan 2010 15:41:42 +1100
> Anton Blanchard <anton@...ba.org> wrote:
> 
> > When CONFIG_VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING and CONFIG_CGROUP_CPUACCT are enabled we can
> > call cpuacct_update_stats with values much larger than percpu_counter_batch.
> > This means the call to percpu_counter_add will always add to the global count
> > which is protected by a spinlock and we end up with a global spinlock in
> > the scheduler.
> 
> When one looks at the end result:

We have about 32 jiffies batch both with or without CONFIG_VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING.
Then, The enduser can looks some jiffies after.




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