Re: [PATCH]sched/rt: Do not account zero delta_exec inupdate_curr_rt()

[Steven Rostedt]

On Wed, 2013-01-30 at 16:50 +0400, Kirill Tkhai wrote:
> There are several places of consecutive calls of dequeue_task_rt()
> and put_prev_task_rt() in the scheduler. For example, function
> rt_mutex_setprio() does it.
> 
> The both calls lead to update_curr_rt(), the second of it receives
> zeroed delta_exec. The only effective action in this case is call of
> sched_rt_avg_update(), which can change rq->age_stamp and rq->rt_avg.
> But it is possible in case of ""floating"" rq->clock. This fact is
> not reasonable to be accounted. Another actions do nothing.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Kirill V Tkhai <tkhai@xxxxxxxxx>

Acked-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@xxxxxxxxxxx>

-- Steve

> CC: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxxxxx>
> CC: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> CC: linux-rt-users <linux-rt-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>  kernel/sched/rt.c |    4 ++--
>  1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> diff --git a/kernel/sched/rt.c b/kernel/sched/rt.c
> index 4e8f0f4..c6d7993 100644
> --- a/kernel/sched/rt.c
> +++ b/kernel/sched/rt.c
> @@ -925,8 +925,8 @@ static void update_curr_rt(struct rq *rq)
>  		return;
>  
>  	delta_exec = rq->clock_task - curr->se.exec_start;
> -	if (unlikely((s64)delta_exec < 0))
> -		delta_exec = 0;
> +	if (unlikely((s64)delta_exec <= 0))
> +		return;
>  
>  	schedstat_set(curr->se.statistics.exec_max,
>  		      max(curr->se.statistics.exec_max, delta_exec));


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