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From: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: Inconsistent load average on tickless kernels
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Lesław Kopeć wrote:

> 2.6.32.55-hz-0f004f5a69			9.88
> 2.6.32.55-no-hz-74f5187ac8		2.48
> 2.6.32.55-no-hz-c308b56b53		2.22
> 3.0.28-hz				10.66
> 3.0.28-no-hz				0.60
> 3.0.28-no-hz-c308b56b53			4.09
> 3.0.28-no-hz-c308b56b53 nohz=off	6.78
> 3.2.12-hz				10.16
> 3.2.12-no-hz				0.66
> 3.2.12-no-hz-c308b56b53			4.36
>
> What's worth noting is that I haven't seen any nasty side effects of the
> latest patch on all kernel versions that I've tested. Hope that helps.

Ok.

Peter, do you think it would make sense to add c308b56b53987 to 3.0.y
and newer stable kernels?

Thanks,
Jonathan