[BUG] 2.6.37-rc3 massive interactivity regression on ARM

[Russell King - ARM Linux]

On Fri, Dec 10, 2010 at 02:47:46PM +0100, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
>  inline void update_rq_clock(struct rq *rq)
>  {
> -	int cpu = cpu_of(rq);
> -	u64 irq_time;
> +	s64 delta;
>  
>  	if (rq->skip_clock_update)
>  		return;
>  
> -	rq->clock = sched_clock_cpu(cpu);
> -	irq_time = irq_time_cpu(cpu);
> -	if (rq->clock - irq_time > rq->clock_task)
> -		rq->clock_task = rq->clock - irq_time;
> +	delta = sched_clock_cpu(cpu_of(rq)) - rq->clock;
> +	rq->clock += delta;

Hmm.  Can you tell me how this is different to:

	new_clock = sched_clock_cpu(cpu_of(rq));
	delta = new_clock - rq->clock;
	rq->clock = new_clock;

which I think may be simpler in terms of 64-bit math for 32-bit compilers
to deal with?

In terms of the wrap-around, I don't see this as any different from the
above, as:

	rq->clock += sched_clock_cpu(cpu_of(rq)) - rq_clock;
	rq->clock = rq->clock + sched_clock_cpu(cpu_of(rq)) - rq_clock;
	rq->clock = sched_clock_cpu(cpu_of(rq));