Re: [Bug #12650] Strange load average and ksoftirqd behavior with 2.6.29-rc2-git1

Ingo Molnar
2009-02-16T09:21:28Z

* Damien Wyart <damien.wyart@free.fr> 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