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Date: Tue, 29 May 2007 17:50:52 -0700
From: "Siddha, Suresh B" <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com>
To: Peter Williams <pwil3058@bigpond.net.au>
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Subject: Re: [patch] CFS scheduler, -v12
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On Tue, May 29, 2007 at 04:54:29PM -0700, Peter Williams wrote:
> > I tried with various refresh rates of top too.. Do you see the issue
> > at runlevel 3 too?
> 
> I haven't tried that.
> 
> Do your spinners ever relinquish the CPU voluntarily?

Nope. Simple and plain while(1); 's

I can try 32-bit kernel to check.

thanks,
suresh
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