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Date: Wed, 1 Dec 2010 16:54:41 +0100
From: Damien Wyart <damien.wyart@free.fr>
To: Harry Nak <harrynak@gmail.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Subject: Re: timer.c - high load avarage with idle cpu
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Hi,

> [...]
> My solution is to postpone the call to run_local_timers() until
> scheduler_tick() has been called.

> Could anybody confirm my theory and is it possible that my solution
> breaks anything?

Your problem might be related to this thread:
https://lkml.org/lkml/2010/9/29/51

-- 
Damien