Re: High CPU load when machine is idle (related to PROBLEM: Unusually high load average when idle in 2.6.35, 2.6.35.1 and later)

Ingo Molnar
2010-10-21T08:22:46Z

* tmhikaru@gmail.com <tmhikaru@gmail.com> wrote:

> On Wed, Oct 20, 2010 at 09:48:43PM -0400, tm@ wrote:
> > On Wed, Oct 20, 2010 at 07:26:45PM +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> > >
> > >
> > > OK, how does this work for people? I find my idle load is still a tad
> > > high, but maybe I'm not patient enough.
> >
> > I haven't had a chance to keep up with the topic, and I apologize. I'll be
> > testing this as soon as I can finish compiling it. Thank you all for not
> > letting this go unfixed.
> >
> > Tim McGrath
>
> Uhh, problem. This patch does not apply to git checkout
> 74f5187ac873042f502227701ed1727e7c5fbfa9
>
> which is the version of the kernel that first exhibits this flaw.
>
> which version of the kernel does this patch apply cleanly to?

Try -tip (which includes the scheduler development tree as well):

http://people.redhat.com/mingo/tip.git/README

Thanks,

Ingo