On Tue, 2016-05-03 at 15:40 +0200, Oleg Nesterov wrote: > On 05/02, Andrew Morton wrote: > > > > > > On Mon, 02 May 2016 23:17:41 +0300 Oleksandr Natalenko wrote: > > > > > > > > rtsx_usb_ms creates a task that mostly sleeps, but tasks in > > > uninterruptible sleep still contribute to the load average (for > > > bug-compatibility with Unix). > We have TASK_NOLOAD/TASK_IDLE, you can just use schedule_timeout_idle(HZ). [...]
I wasn't aware of that function... ah, that would be because it's new in 4.6. It seems much clearer to use that than to use msleep_interruptible() and ignore the result. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings In a hierarchy, every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence.
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