Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1757025AbXJBXk3 (ORCPT ); Tue, 2 Oct 2007 19:40:29 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752954AbXJBXkU (ORCPT ); Tue, 2 Oct 2007 19:40:20 -0400 Received: from rtr.ca ([76.10.145.34]:2329 "EHLO mail.rtr.ca" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752055AbXJBXkT (ORCPT ); Tue, 2 Oct 2007 19:40:19 -0400 Message-ID: <4702D6E1.4060705@rtr.ca> Date: Tue, 02 Oct 2007 19:40:17 -0400 From: Mark Lord User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.6 (X11/20070728) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Arjan van de Ven Cc: Linus Torvalds , Andrew Morton , Anders Bostr?m , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: PROBLEM: high load average when idle References: <20071002.233731.119908363.anders@bostrom.dyndns.org> <20071002150748.906970bc.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <4702CA3A.50600@rtr.ca> <20071002162247.26316b3b@laptopd505.fenrus.org> In-Reply-To: <20071002162247.26316b3b@laptopd505.fenrus.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 685 Lines: 17 Arjan van de Ven wrote: > 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. Ah, yes, you're correct. The itimer routines do their *own* rounding. -ml - 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/