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Luis R. Rodriguez authored
There are cases where folks are using an interruptible swait when using kthreads. This is rather confusing given you'd expect interruptible waits to be -- interruptible, but kthreads are not interruptible ! The reason for such practice though is to avoid having these kthreads contribute to the system load average. When systems are idle some kthreads may spend a lot of time blocking if using swait_event_timeout(). This would contribute to the system load average. On systems without preemption this would mean the load average of an idle system is bumped to 2 instead of 0. On systems with PREEMPT=y this would mean the load average of an idle system is bumped to 3 instead of 0. This adds proper API using TASK_IDLE to make such goals explicit and avoid confusion. Suggested-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com> Acked-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com> Tested-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Luis R. Rodriguez <mcgrof@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
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