Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755741Ab0LBKAX (ORCPT ); Thu, 2 Dec 2010 05:00:23 -0500 Received: from mail-ww0-f44.google.com ([74.125.82.44]:39693 "EHLO mail-ww0-f44.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751492Ab0LBKAV (ORCPT ); Thu, 2 Dec 2010 05:00:21 -0500 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :content-type; b=oDzSY3AfdLxtFXxt2Vo/ekPMUe+QiPVGjiBUYH7jcuL0/cAfMRnXy+CGeNGqwwMT69 vMII9M/JPoIMr0k2FKdfrA9H85ggP3+BnGfUcizxaYgsYv5GPuinz0GmqNXNznui7zGu y9/mDZSAfMpUcDAvs+21KZb/WMPZsWdOJieZk= MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20101201155441.GA22342@brouette> References: <20101201155441.GA22342@brouette> Date: Thu, 2 Dec 2010 11:00:20 +0100 Message-ID: Subject: Re: timer.c - high load avarage with idle cpu From: Harry Nak To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 755 Lines: 21 Damien Wyart wrote: >> [...] >> My solution is to postpone the call to run_local_timers() until >> scheduler_tick() has been called. > >> Could anybody confirm my theory and is it possible that my solution >> breaks anything? > > Your problem might be related to this thread: > https://lkml.org/lkml/2010/9/29/51 Thanks for the hint. However from what I have read in this thread, this deals specifically with a tickless kernel, while my issue manifests on a regular HZ kernel. - Harry -- 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/