Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754605AbYKQT5F (ORCPT ); Mon, 17 Nov 2008 14:57:05 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752025AbYKQT4y (ORCPT ); Mon, 17 Nov 2008 14:56:54 -0500 Received: from BISCAYNE-ONE-STATION.MIT.EDU ([18.7.7.80]:51020 "EHLO biscayne-one-station.mit.edu" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751808AbYKQT4x (ORCPT ); Mon, 17 Nov 2008 14:56:53 -0500 Date: Mon, 17 Nov 2008 14:53:52 -0500 From: Theodore Tso To: Frans Pop Cc: eo@nebensachen.de, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, tglx@linutronix.de, mingo@elte.hu, bugme-daemon@bugzilla.kernel.org, akpm@linux-foundation.org Subject: Re: [Bug 11905] REGRESSION: lots of extra timer interrupts costing power Message-ID: <20081117195352.GE14523@mit.edu> Mail-Followup-To: Theodore Tso , Frans Pop , eo@nebensachen.de, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, tglx@linutronix.de, mingo@elte.hu, bugme-daemon@bugzilla.kernel.org, akpm@linux-foundation.org References: <20081031031516.GA9781@mit.edu> <87mygl2hg1.fsf@denkblock.local> <87mygl2hg1.fsf@denkblock.local> <20081117081326.GA14523@mit.edu> <200811171036.49067.elendil@planet.nl> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200811171036.49067.elendil@planet.nl> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.17+20080114 (2008-01-14) X-Spam-Flag: NO X-Spam-Score: 0.00 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 923 Lines: 25 On Mon, Nov 17, 2008 at 10:36:48AM +0100, Frans Pop wrote: > Theodore Tso wrote: > > Hi, what's going on with this regression? To refresh people's memory, > > I tracked down the excess interrupts to a specific commit, fb02fbc1, > > and I've been running quite happily with a patch to revert this > > commit. > > Isn't that solved by this commit (included in -rc5)? > > commit ae99286b4f1be7788f2d6947c66a91dbd6351eec > Author: Thomas Gleixner > Date: Mon Nov 10 13:20:23 2008 +0100 > > nohz: disable tick_nohz_kick_tick() for now Yep, so it is. Sorry, I missed that; I haven't migrated to -rc5 yet. I'll close the Bugzilla entry. - Ted -- 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/