Re: [PATCH 1/2] nohz: stop updating sleep stats from get_cpu_{idle,iowait}_time_us()

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On Tue, Apr 15, 2014 at 10:48:54AM +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 10, 2014 at 06:11:03PM +0900, Hidetoshi Seto wrote:
> > -	if (ts->idle_active) {
> > -		delta = ktime_sub(now, ts->idle_entrytime);
> > -		if (nr_iowait_cpu(cpu) > 0)
> > -			ts->iowait_sleeptime = ktime_add(ts->iowait_sleeptime, delta);
> > -		else
> > -			ts->idle_sleeptime = ktime_add(ts->idle_sleeptime, delta);
> > -		ts->idle_entrytime = now;
> > -	}
> > -
> > -	if (last_update_time)
> > -		*last_update_time = ktime_to_us(now);
> > -
> > -}
> > -
> > -static void tick_nohz_stop_idle(struct tick_sched *ts, ktime_t now)
> > -{
> > -	update_ts_time_stats(smp_processor_id(), ts, now, NULL);
> > +	/* Updates the per cpu time idle statistics counters */
> > +	delta = ktime_sub(now, ts->idle_entrytime);
> > +	if (nr_iowait_cpu(smp_processor_id()) > 0)
> 
> Now I know the old code also uses nr_iowait_cpu(), but that function is
> crackbrained. This cannot possibly be right.
> 
> Anything using nr_iowait_cpu() is broken beyond repair.

Argh, still need to wake up.. so it uses the old rq to decrement
against.

never mind, I'll go stare at it more
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