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From: Ingo Molnar <mingo-X9Un+BFzKDI@public.gmane.org>
Subject: Re: [Bug #12650] Strange load average and ksoftirqd behavior with
	2.6.29-rc2-git1
Date: Mon, 16 Feb 2009 10:21:00 +0100
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To: Damien Wyart <damien.wyart-GANU6spQydw@public.gmane.org>
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* Damien Wyart <damien.wyart-GANU6spQydw@public.gmane.org> wrote:

> > Does it find any TSC time warps?
> 
> Seems not.

ok, it's indeed pretty conclusive:

|  2 CPUs, running 2 parallel test-tasks.
|  checking for time-warps via:
|  - read time stamp counter (RDTSC) instruction (cycle resolution)
| 
|   | TSC: 0.32us, fail:0 |

i suspect you ran it for at least a couple of minutes, and the ksoftirqd 
anomaly occured during it, right?

	Ingo