From: Mark Lord <lkml@rtr.ca>
To: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
Anders Bostr?m <anders@bostrom.dyndns.org>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: PROBLEM: high load average when idle
Date: Tue, 02 Oct 2007 19:40:17 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4702D6E1.4060705@rtr.ca> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20071002162247.26316b3b@laptopd505.fenrus.org>
Arjan van de Ven wrote:
> On Tue, 02 Oct 2007 18:46:18 -0400
>> On a related note, {set/get}itimer() currently are buggy (since
>> 2.6.11 or so), also due to this round_jiffies() thing I believe.
>
> I very much believe that it is totally unrelated... most of all since
> round_jiffies() wasn't in the kernel then an also isn't used anywhere
> near these timers.
Ah, yes, you're correct. The itimer routines do their *own* rounding.
-ml
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-10-02 23:40 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-10-02 21:37 PROBLEM: high load average when idle Anders Boström
2007-10-02 22:07 ` Andrew Morton
2007-10-02 22:32 ` Linus Torvalds
2007-10-02 22:39 ` Arjan van de Ven
2007-10-02 22:46 ` Mark Lord
2007-10-02 23:22 ` Arjan van de Ven
2007-10-02 23:40 ` Mark Lord [this message]
2007-10-02 23:19 ` Arjan van de Ven
2007-10-02 22:33 ` Chuck Ebbert
2007-10-02 23:26 ` Arjan van de Ven
2007-10-03 17:32 ` Chuck Ebbert
2007-10-03 18:02 ` Linus Torvalds
2007-10-03 18:20 ` Arjan van de Ven
2007-10-03 18:28 ` Linus Torvalds
2007-10-03 18:29 ` Arjan van de Ven
2007-10-03 20:15 ` Anders Boström
2007-10-03 18:34 ` Anders Boström
2007-10-02 23:13 ` Arjan van de Ven
2007-10-03 7:04 ` Anders Boström
2007-10-03 9:40 ` Thorsten Kranzkowski
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