Re: [patch] CFS scheduler, -v19

Ingo Molnar
2007-07-16T21:56:10Z

* Chuck Ebbert <cebbert@redhat.com> wrote:

> On 07/13/2007 05:19 PM, Bill Davidsen wrote:
> >
> > I should really go back to 2.6.21.6, 2.6.22 has many bizarre behaviors
> > with FC6. Automount starts taking 30% of CPU (unused at the moment)
>
> Can you confirm whether CFS is involved, i.e. does it spin like that
> even without the CFS patch applied?

hmmm .... could you take out the kernel/time.c (sys_time()) changes from
the CFS patch, does that solve the automount issue? If yes, could
someone take a look at automount and check whether it makes use of
time(2) and whether it combines it with finer grained time sources?

Ingo