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

Ingo Molnar
2009-02-17T21:48:47Z

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

> Hello Paul,
>
> > > There's no strong reason - we've been back and forth about RCU in
> > > the dynticks code. Mind sending a test patch for Damien to try?
>
> > But of course! ;-)
>
> With this patch, the problem goes away and system activity
> seems normal, both on the P4 with high load and on the recent
> laptop.

Applied to tip:x86/urgent, thanks a lot for the patient testing
and tracing!

Ingo