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 <peterz@infradead.org>
To: Damien Wyart <damien.wyart@free.fr>
Cc: tmhikaru@gmail.com, Venkatesh Pallipadi <venki@google.com>,
        Chase Douglas <chase.douglas@canonical.com>,
        Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>, Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
        linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
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Date: Thu, 25 Nov 2010 15:03:27 +0100
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On Thu, 2010-11-25 at 14:31 +0100, Damien Wyart wrote:
> Hi Peter,
> 
> Do you have a plan about solving this problem in the coming weeks or
> will it still be present in 2.6.37 final? I am not implying any critic
> in any way, just want to know a status because compared to other bugs
> discussed in lkml, this one has seen very little technical proposals
> towards a resolution (except your attempts). People who signed off the
> discussed commit did not make any technical analysis about the bug
> reported and this gives a strange feeling. Earth will not stop rotating
> if it is not solved, but I still this it is quite important and affects
> many users. 

Yes I agree, I've put the problem on the back burner for a bit so that I
can forget all my tinkering and try again with a fresher mind :-)

I'll try and get around to it somewhere this week again.
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