Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755062AbXJBXYq (ORCPT ); Tue, 2 Oct 2007 19:24:46 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752996AbXJBXYj (ORCPT ); Tue, 2 Oct 2007 19:24:39 -0400 Received: from pentafluge.infradead.org ([213.146.154.40]:52781 "EHLO pentafluge.infradead.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752884AbXJBXYi (ORCPT ); Tue, 2 Oct 2007 19:24:38 -0400 Date: Tue, 2 Oct 2007 16:22:47 -0700 From: Arjan van de Ven To: Mark Lord Cc: Linus Torvalds , Andrew Morton , Anders Bostr?m , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: PROBLEM: high load average when idle Message-ID: <20071002162247.26316b3b@laptopd505.fenrus.org> In-Reply-To: <4702CA3A.50600@rtr.ca> References: <20071002.233731.119908363.anders@bostrom.dyndns.org> <20071002150748.906970bc.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <4702CA3A.50600@rtr.ca> Organization: Intel X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.0.1 (GTK+ 2.12.0; i386-redhat-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 575 Lines: 13 On Tue, 02 Oct 2007 18:46:18 -0400 > > On a related note, {set/get}itimer() currently are buggy (since > 2.6.11 or so), also due to this round_jiffies() thing I believe. I very much believe that it is totally unrelated... most of all since round_jiffies() wasn't in the kernel then an also isn't used anywhere near these timers. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/