Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755725Ab0KJMA1 (ORCPT ); Wed, 10 Nov 2010 07:00:27 -0500 Received: from casper.infradead.org ([85.118.1.10]:33070 "EHLO casper.infradead.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755641Ab0KJMAY convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Wed, 10 Nov 2010 07:00:24 -0500 Subject: Re: High CPU load when machine is idle (related to PROBLEM: Unusually high load average when idle in 2.6.35, 2.6.35.1 and later) From: Peter Zijlstra To: Kyle McMartin Cc: Venkatesh Pallipadi , Damien Wyart , Chase Douglas , Ingo Molnar , tmhikaru@gmail.com, Thomas Gleixner , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: <20101110034507.GV8332@bombadil.infradead.org> References: <1287788622-25860-1-git-send-email-venki@google.com> <1288001573.15336.52.camel@twins> <1288097074.15336.211.camel@twins> <1288101958.15336.284.camel@twins> <1288381343.1988.12.camel@laptop> <20101109185516.GQ8332@bombadil.infradead.org> <1289329348.2191.69.camel@laptop> <20101110034507.GV8332@bombadil.infradead.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT Date: Wed, 10 Nov 2010 13:00:24 +0100 Message-ID: <1289390424.2191.98.camel@laptop> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.30.3 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 622 Lines: 14 On Tue, 2010-11-09 at 22:45 -0500, Kyle McMartin wrote: > On Tue, Nov 09, 2010 at 08:02:28PM +0100, Peter Zijlstra wrote: > > Right, I tested it myself yesterday and got similar results. Does the > > 'simple' patch from a few posts back work for people? > > > > Apparently it doesn't make a large amount of difference. :/ Crud, ok, back to basics it is.. thanks for testing! -- 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/