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| author | Venkatesh Pallipadi <venki@google.com> | 2010-10-04 17:03:16 -0700 |
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| committer | Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> | 2010-10-18 20:52:20 +0200 |
| commit | 75e1056f5c57050415b64cb761a3acc35d91f013 (patch) | |
| tree | e7cd483e38f9bf9131a3b212301a009890b8de49 /net/sched | |
| parent | 75dd321d79d495a0ee579e6249ebc38ddbb2667f (diff) | |
sched: Fix softirq time accounting
Peter Zijlstra found a bug in the way softirq time is accounted in
VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING on this thread:
http://lkml.indiana.edu/hypermail//linux/kernel/1009.2/01366.html
The problem is, softirq processing uses local_bh_disable internally. There
is no way, later in the flow, to differentiate between whether softirq is
being processed or is it just that bh has been disabled. So, a hardirq when bh
is disabled results in time being wrongly accounted as softirq.
Looking at the code a bit more, the problem exists in !VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING
as well. As account_system_time() in normal tick based accouting also uses
softirq_count, which will be set even when not in softirq with bh disabled.
Peter also suggested solution of using 2*SOFTIRQ_OFFSET as irq count
for local_bh_{disable,enable} and using just SOFTIRQ_OFFSET while softirq
processing. The patch below does that and adds API in_serving_softirq() which
returns whether we are currently processing softirq or not.
Also changes one of the usages of softirq_count in net/sched/cls_cgroup.c
to in_serving_softirq.
Looks like many usages of in_softirq really want in_serving_softirq. Those
changes can be made individually on a case by case basis.
Signed-off-by: Venkatesh Pallipadi <venki@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
LKML-Reference: <1286237003-12406-2-git-send-email-venki@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Diffstat (limited to 'net/sched')
| -rw-r--r-- | net/sched/cls_cgroup.c | 2 |
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/net/sched/cls_cgroup.c b/net/sched/cls_cgroup.c index 78ef2c5e130..37dff78e9cb 100644 --- a/net/sched/cls_cgroup.c +++ b/net/sched/cls_cgroup.c @@ -123,7 +123,7 @@ static int cls_cgroup_classify(struct sk_buff *skb, struct tcf_proto *tp, * calls by looking at the number of nested bh disable calls because * softirqs always disables bh. */ - if (softirq_count() != SOFTIRQ_OFFSET) { + if (in_serving_softirq()) { /* If there is an sk_classid we'll use that. */ if (!skb->sk) return -1; |