On Friday 05 October 2007, Chuck Ebbert wrote:
> procfs: Don't read runtime twice when computing task's stime
>
> Current code reads p->se.sum_exec_runtime twice and goes through
> multiple type conversions to calculate stime. Read it once and
> skip some of the conversions.
>
> Signed-off-by: Chuck Ebbert <[email protected]>
This second patch is a major improvement. But both for kontact and amarok I
still see stime decreasing occasionally. Sometimes even still quite
frequently like in this series:
Oct 05 17:00:42 698 178
Oct 05 17:00:43 700 177
Oct 05 17:00:44 700 177
Oct 05 17:00:45 700 177
Oct 05 17:00:46 700 178
Oct 05 17:00:47 700 178
Oct 05 17:00:48 700 177
Oct 05 17:00:49 700 177
Oct 05 17:00:50 700 178
Oct 05 17:00:51 700 178
Oct 05 17:00:52 700 179
Oct 05 17:00:53 698 180
Oct 05 17:00:54 700 179
Oct 05 17:00:55 700 179
Oct 05 17:00:56 700 179
Oct 05 17:00:57 700 179
Oct 05 17:00:58 700 180
Oct 05 17:00:59 700 179
This was after 6 minutes of steady increases.
Should we try a debug patch that shows the raw data behind the calculations?
I'll give the first patch a try next.
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