linux-kernel - Re: [GIT PULL] sched: Cputime update for 3.10

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Date:	Thu, 14 Mar 2013 08:14:27 +0100
From:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>
To:	Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@...il.com>
Cc:	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Stanislaw Gruszka <sgruszka@...hat.com>,
	Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>,
	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: [GIT PULL] sched: Cputime update for 3.10


* Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@...il.com> wrote:

> Ingo,
> 
> Please pull the latest cputime accounting updates that can be found at:
> 
> git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/frederic/linux-dynticks.git
> 	sched/core
> 
> HEAD: d9a3c9823a2e6a543eb7807fb3d15d8233817ec5
> 
> Some users are complaining that their threadgroup's runtime accounting 
> freezes after a week or so of intense cpu-bound workload. This set tries 
> to fix the issue by reducing the risk of multiplication overflow in the 
> cputime scaling code.

Hm, is this a new bug? When was it introduced and is upstream affected as 
well?

Thanks,

	Ingo
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