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    SubjectRe: [GIT PULL] cputime: Convert core use of cputime_t to nsecs
    On Mon, Jan 30, 2017 at 03:32:24PM +0100, Stanislaw Gruszka wrote:
    > On Mon, Jan 30, 2017 at 05:46:43AM +0100, Frederic Weisbecker wrote:
    > > Now lets admit one drawback: s390 and powerpc with
    > > CONFIG_VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_NATIVE have new cputime_t to nsecs conversion
    > > on cputime accounting path. But this should be leveraged by the recent
    > > changes which delay the cputime accounting to tick and context switch.
    >
    > I think it would be worth to mention that there are other drawbacks on
    > 32bit architectures that use cputime-jiffies currently, like:
    > - cache utilization will be worse

    Due to utime and stime becoming 64 bits? Yeah indeed.

    > - conversion cputime_to_jiffies() and cputime_to_clock_t() (with HZ == USER_HS)
    > will no longer be an no-op

    Yes probably some cputime_to_jiffies() have been replaced with nsecs_to_jiffies().
    In turn many cputime_to_nsecs() are now no-op.

    Now concerning cputime_to_clock_t(), it seems that USER_HZ=100 most of the time. This
    value seems to be seldom used for HZ on distros in general.

    > - to keep values consistent will need to add protection of u64 store/load,
    > which will create additional performance costs

    Yes but note these issues were already there before this patchset.
    Especially for kcpustat. And utime/stime also have these issues under CONFIG_NO_HZ_FULL.

    Now this patchset extends the problem for utime/stime to all configs. That's certainly
    one more reason to fix it. But that's outside the scope of this patchset.

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