On Mon, Jun 08, 2015 at 01:48:10PM -0400, Steven Rostedt wrote: > > commit 80ed87c8a9ca0cad7ca66cf3bbdfb17559a66dcf > > Author: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> > > Date: Fri May 8 14:23:45 2015 +0200 > > > > sched/wait: Introduce TASK_NOLOAD and TASK_IDLE > > > > Currently people use TASK_INTERRUPTIBLE to idle kthreads and wait for > > 'work' because TASK_UNINTERRUPTIBLE contributes to the loadavg. Having > > all idle kthreads contribute to the loadavg is somewhat silly. > > Not to mention, tasks in TASK_UNINTERRUPTIBLE state for too long will > trigger hung task detection. Right, and I had not considered that, but it turns out the hung_task detector checks p->state == TASK_UNINTERRUPTIBLE, so TASK_IDLE is indeed safe from that. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-nfs" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
