Re: [PATCH 07/11] Task watchers: Register per-task delay accounting task watcher

[Matt Helsley <matthltc@us.ibm.com>]

On Tue, 2006-06-13 at 23:31 -0400, Shailabh Nagar wrote:
> 
> 
> Matt Helsley wrote:
> 
> >Adapts delayacct to use Task Watchers. Does not adapt taskstats to use Task
> >Watchers.
> >
> >Signed-off-by: Matt Helsley <matthltc@us.ibm.com>
> >Cc: Shailabh Nagar <nagar@watson.ibm.com>
> >Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com>
> >Cc: Chandra S. Seetharaman <sekharan@us.ibm.com>
> >--
> >
> > include/linux/delayacct.h |    2 +-
> > kernel/delayacct.c        |   23 +++++++++++++++++++++++
> > kernel/exit.c             |    2 --
> > kernel/fork.c             |    2 --
> > 4 files changed, 24 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
> >
> >
> >  
> >
> <snip>
> 
> >Index: linux-2.6.17-rc5-mm2/include/linux/delayacct.h
> >===================================================================
> >--- linux-2.6.17-rc5-mm2.orig/include/linux/delayacct.h
> >+++ linux-2.6.17-rc5-mm2/include/linux/delayacct.h
> >@@ -59,11 +59,11 @@ static inline void delayacct_tsk_init(st
> > 		__delayacct_tsk_init(tsk);
> > }
> > 
> > static inline void delayacct_tsk_exit(struct task_struct *tsk)
> > {
> >-	if (tsk->delays)
> >+	if (unlikely(tsk->delays))
> > 		__delayacct_tsk_exit(tsk);
> > }
> >  
> >
> 
> This snippet does not belong to this patchset...since the same check 
> (for tsk->delays) is
> being used elsewhere in the delay accounting code, changes to use of 
> likely/unlikely should
> be done elsewhere too, if deemed necesssary.

Good point. I'll remove this chunk of the patch.

<snip>

Cheers,
	-Matt Helsley

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