Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751480Ab0K1E0P (ORCPT ); Sat, 27 Nov 2010 23:26:15 -0500 Received: from bombadil.infradead.org ([18.85.46.34]:32860 "EHLO bombadil.infradead.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751055Ab0K1E0N (ORCPT ); Sat, 27 Nov 2010 23:26:13 -0500 Date: Sat, 27 Nov 2010 23:26:01 -0500 From: Kyle McMartin To: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Damien Wyart , tmhikaru@gmail.com, Venkatesh Pallipadi , Chase Douglas , Ingo Molnar , Thomas Gleixner , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Kyle McMartin 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) Message-ID: <20101128042601.GC15818@bombadil.infradead.org> References: <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> <1289390424.2191.98.camel@laptop> <20101114051406.GA2050@roll> <20101125133106.GA12914@brouette> <1290693807.2145.36.camel@laptop> <1290888920.32004.1.camel@laptop> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1290888920.32004.1.camel@laptop> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 568 Lines: 17 On Sat, Nov 27, 2010 at 09:15:20PM +0100, Peter Zijlstra wrote: > > I'll try and get around to it somewhere this week again. > > How does this work for you? Its hideous but lets start simple. > At least one user reports noticeably lower idle load average using a kernel with that patch. Thanks, looks promising! Kyle -- 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/