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    sched: Expire invalid runtime · a9cf55b2
    Paul Turner authored
    Since quota is managed using a global state but consumed on a per-cpu basis
    we need to ensure that our per-cpu state is appropriately synchronized.
    Most importantly, runtime that is state (from a previous period) should not be
    locally consumable.
    
    We take advantage of existing sched_clock synchronization about the jiffy to
    efficiently detect whether we have (globally) crossed a quota boundary above.
    
    One catch is that the direction of spread on sched_clock is undefined,
    specifically, we don't know whether our local clock is behind or ahead
    of the one responsible for the current expiration time.
    
    Fortunately we can differentiate these by considering whether the
    global deadline has advanced.  If it has not, then we assume our clock to be
    "fast" and advance our local expiration; otherwise, we know the deadline has
    truly passed and we expire our local runtime.
    Signed-off-by: default avatarPaul Turner <pjt@google.com>
    Reviewed-by: default avatarHidetoshi Seto <seto.hidetoshi@jp.fujitsu.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarPeter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
    Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20110721184757.379275352@google.comSigned-off-by: default avatarIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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