[patch 2/2] sched: fix nr_uninterruptible accounting of frozen tasks really

[Nathan Lynch]

On Fri, 2009-07-17 at 18:47 +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> On Fri, 2009-07-17 at 08:22 -0700, Matt Helsley wrote:
> 
> > The job scheduler in question does not use FROZEN as a transient state and
> > does not use checkpoint/restart at all since c/r is still a work in progress.

Right, the job scheduler uses the cgroup freezer as a mechanism to
preempt a low priority job for a higher priority job.  (It had used
SIGSTOP in the past.)  So in this scenario a frozen cgroup may remain in
that state for a while.  Load average is consulted as a measure of
system utilization.

> > Even when used for power management it seems wrong to count frozen tasks
> > towards the loadavg since they aren't using CPU time or waiting for IO.
> 
> You're abusing it for _WHAT_?

I think Matt was referring to system-wide suspend/resume/hibernate, not
a behavior of the job scheduler, if that's your concern.