linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 1/6] sched/cputime: Support other fields on kcpustat

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Message-ID: <20191120210440.GR3079@worktop.programming.kicks-ass.net>
Date:   Wed, 20 Nov 2019 22:04:40 +0100
From:   Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
To:     Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>
Cc:     Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@...nel.org>,
        LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Jacek Anaszewski <jacek.anaszewski@...il.com>,
        Wanpeng Li <wanpengli@...cent.com>,
        "Rafael J . Wysocki" <rjw@...ysocki.net>,
        Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@...nel.crashing.org>,
        Rik van Riel <riel@...riel.com>,
        Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
        Yauheni Kaliuta <yauheni.kaliuta@...hat.com>,
        Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@...aro.org>,
        Pavel Machek <pavel@....cz>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/6] sched/cputime: Support other fields on
 kcpustat_field()

On Wed, Nov 20, 2019 at 12:51:42PM +0100, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> * Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@...nel.org> wrote:

> > +		/*
> > +		 * Nice VS unnice cputime accounting may be inaccurate if
> > +		 * the nice value has changed since the last vtime update.
> > +		 * But proper fix would involve interrupting target on nice
> > +		 * updates which is a no go on nohz_full.
> 
> Well, we actually already interrupt the target in both sys_nice() and 
> sys_setpriority() etc. syscall variants: we call set_user_nice() which 
> calls resched_curr() and the task is sent an IPI and runs through a 
> reschedule.

I think we can easily avoid doing that IPI when we find it is the only
task on that runqueue. Which is exactly the case for NOHZ_FULL.