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Currently people use TASK_INTERRUPTIBLE to idle kthreads and wait for 'work' because TASK_UNINTERRUPTIBLE contributes to the loadavg. Having all idle kthreads contribute to the loadavg is somewhat silly. Now mostly this works OK, because kthreads have all their signals masked. However there's a few sites where this is causing problems and TASK_UNINTERRUPTIBLE should be used, except for that loadavg issue. This patch adds TASK_NOLOAD which, when combined with TASK_UNINTERRUPTIBLE avoids the loadavg accounting. As most of imagined usage sites are loops where a thread wants to idle, waiting for work, a helper TASK_IDLE is introduced. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Julian Anastasov <ja@ssi.bg> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> |
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