From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756853Ab0JUBxn (ORCPT ); Wed, 20 Oct 2010 21:53:43 -0400 Received: from mail-qy0-f174.google.com ([209.85.216.174]:38866 "EHLO mail-qy0-f174.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1756815Ab0JUBxl (ORCPT ); Wed, 20 Oct 2010 21:53:41 -0400 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=date:from:to:subject:message-id:references:mime-version :content-type:content-disposition:in-reply-to:user-agent; b=C6NwEWHeZzRfm4qlr1BuBr5nZnVMsmHivURFib5qLtGZgTYaEyyWKxs15cS+TE6sd1 emSVxdQZvbu1barYQoZbp99vJAB5a888pU66xZxDncpQPI0e3f4nbOjYID0Qsld4SEv7 vDcBHEms3WIy245AgELYA027dHu9CshFFhBrc= Date: Wed, 20 Oct 2010 21:53:37 -0400 From: tmhikaru@gmail.com To: Peter Zijlstra , Damien Wyart , Chase Douglas , Ingo Molnar , Thomas Gleixner , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Venkatesh Pallipadi Subject: 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) Message-ID: <20101021015337.GA21384@roll> References: <20100929070153.GA2200@brouette> <20101014145813.GA2185@brouette> <20101020132732.GA30024@brouette> <1287581440.3488.16.camel@twins> <1287582208.3488.20.camel@twins> <1287584073.3488.22.camel@twins> <1287595605.3488.52.camel@twins> <20101021014843.GA21295@roll> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="LQksG6bCIzRHxTLp" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20101021014843.GA21295@roll> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.3i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org --LQksG6bCIzRHxTLp Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable 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: > >=20 > >=20 > > OK, how does this work for people? I find my idle load is still a tad > > high, but maybe I'm not patient enough. >=20 > 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. >=20 > 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? Tim McGrath --LQksG6bCIzRHxTLp Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.10 (GNU/Linux) iQEVAwUBTL+dIZEncCrqzVruAQJgaQf/T0+A0anYe5x4V7SJ8qrQBc6zliOrqjp6 LOp6wGipVULCZDF5a75+w/9g0SDdglCFw7lHdLSpGbUPakLMLE9lNhk6lLkzgyc+ ZBSrz++5VAhbM11C1ZURpP4GR7m3NRO1Cxm51OfUUIigwYu06rBjcgizOZQvW7S/ iSCg7OhespAEMOAyCxqyF8fiRjL6LSN2WUonwmEBwQpjPxxDGvcL79osyvWuawU0 LHrehdQKjUTvVzWylR8RLp8vlY7jUgBIxCFBke4lvOCQ1Q9D7p8HFKXeZ8iiMymt H9T+jRNhmTGx26b/klZ0qLd98HGYtwGbdghj06cRPtgL7dnY5rQVbw== =mbbR -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --LQksG6bCIzRHxTLp--