Replace the spinlock used in the idle time accounting with a sequence
counter mechanism analog to seqlock.
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
All definition in cpu.h have to do with cputime accounting. Move
them to cputime.h and remove the header file.
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
The cpu idle field in the output of /proc/stat is too small for cpus
that have been idle for more than a tick. Add the architecture hook
arch_idle_time that allows to add the not accounted idle time of a
sleeping cpu without waking the cpu.
The s390 implementation of arch_idle_time uses the already existing
s390_idle_data per_cpu variable to find the sleep time of a neighboring
idle cpu.
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
commit aa5e97ce4b
[PATCH] improve precision of process accounting.
Introduced a timing regression:
-bash-3.2# time ls
real 0m0.006s
user 0m1.754s
sys 0m1.094s
The problem was introduced by an error in cputime_to_timeval.
Cputime is now 1/4096 microsecond, therefore, we have to divide
the remainder with 4096 to get the microseconds.
Signed-off-by: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
The unit of the cputime accouting values that are stored per process is
currently a microsecond. The CPU timer has a maximum granularity of
2**-12 microseconds. There is no benefit in storing the per process values
in the lesser precision and there is the disadvantage that the backend
has to do the rounding to microseconds. The better solution is to use
the maximum granularity of the CPU timer as cputime unit.
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Martin Schwidefsky