Re: [PATCH] sched: fix cpu utilization account error

From: Xie XiuQi
Date: Tue Jul 02 2013 - 00:15:26 EST


On 2013/7/2 11:20, Michael Wang wrote:
> Hi, Xie
>
> On 07/01/2013 07:26 PM, Xie XiuQi wrote:
> [snip]
>> Here is the kthread main logic. Although it's not a good idea, but it does
>> exist:
>> while (!kthread_should_stop()) {
>> /* call schedule every 1 sec */
>> if (HZ <= jiffies - last) {
>> last = jiffies;
>> schedule();
>> }
>>
>> /* get data and sent it */
>> get_msg();
>> send_msg();
>
> What about use cond_resched() here? Isn't that more gentle?
>

That's a good idea for driver implementation.
Thank you Michael.

> Regards,
> Michael Wang
>


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