Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756179AbXJBX2U (ORCPT ); Tue, 2 Oct 2007 19:28:20 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753328AbXJBX2G (ORCPT ); Tue, 2 Oct 2007 19:28:06 -0400 Received: from pentafluge.infradead.org ([213.146.154.40]:52819 "EHLO pentafluge.infradead.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753470AbXJBX2E (ORCPT ); Tue, 2 Oct 2007 19:28:04 -0400 Date: Tue, 2 Oct 2007 16:26:13 -0700 From: Arjan van de Ven To: Chuck Ebbert Cc: Andrew Morton , Anders =?UTF-8?B?Qm9zdHI=?= =?UTF-8?B?w7Zt?= , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, torvalds@linux-foundation.org Subject: Re: PROBLEM: high load average when idle Message-ID: <20071002162613.54c3ef43@laptopd505.fenrus.org> In-Reply-To: <4702C756.8090108@redhat.com> References: <20071002.233731.119908363.anders@bostrom.dyndns.org> <20071002150748.906970bc.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <4702C756.8090108@redhat.com> 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: 500 Lines: 11 On Tue, 02 Oct 2007 18:33:58 -0400 > Or, everybody wakes up at once right when we are taking a sample. :) nice try but we sample every timer tick; this code being timer driven makes it what you say it is regardless of *which* timer tick it happens at ;) - 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/