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uml: an idle system should have zero load average

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The ever-vigilant users of linode.com noticed that an idle 2.6 UML has a
persistent load average of ~.4.

It turns out that because the UML timer handler processed softirqs before
actually delivering the tick, the tick was counted in the context of the idle
thread about half the time.

Signed-off-by: Jeff Dike <jdike@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso <blaisorblade@yahoo.it>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Jeff Dike 2007-05-08 00:23:22 -07:00 committed by Linus Torvalds
parent f1adc05e77
commit c83e448420
1 changed files with 2 additions and 2 deletions
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arch/um/kernel/time.c
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@ -177,6 +177,8 @@ int do_settimeofday(struct timespec *tv)
void timer_handler(int sig, union uml_pt_regs *regs)
{
if(current_thread->cpu == 0)
timer_irq(regs);
local_irq_disable();
irq_enter();
update_process_times(CHOOSE_MODE(
@ -184,6 +186,4 @@ void timer_handler(int sig, union uml_pt_regs *regs)
(regs)->skas.is_user));
irq_exit();
local_irq_enable();
if(current_thread->cpu == 0)
timer_irq(regs);
}