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From: Dave Jones <davej@codemonkey.org.uk>
To: Linux Kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	peterz@infradead.org, mgorman@techsingularity.net,
	mingo@kernel.org, Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: weird loadavg on idle machine post 5.7
Date: Thu, 2 Jul 2020 15:46:00 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200702194600.GA28941@codemonkey.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200702171548.GA11813@codemonkey.org.uk>

On Thu, Jul 02, 2020 at 01:15:48PM -0400, Dave Jones wrote:
 > When I upgraded my firewall to 5.7-rc2 I noticed that on a mostly
 > idle machine (that usually sees loadavg hover in the 0.xx range)
 > that it was consistently above 1.00 even when there was nothing running.
 > All that perf showed was the kernel was spending time in the idle loop
 > (and running perf).

Unfortunate typo there, I meant 5.8-rc2, and just confirmed the bug persists in
5.8-rc3.

	Dave

  reply	other threads:[~2020-07-02 19:46 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-07-02 17:15 weird loadavg on idle machine post 5.7 Dave Jones
2020-07-02 19:46 ` Dave Jones [this message]
2020-07-02 21:15 ` Paul Gortmaker
2020-07-03 13:23   ` Paul Gortmaker
2020-07-02 21:36 ` Mel Gorman
2020-07-02 23:11   ` Michal Kubecek
2020-07-02 23:24   ` Dave Jones
2020-07-03  9:02   ` Peter Zijlstra
2020-07-03 10:40     ` Peter Zijlstra
2020-07-03 20:51       ` Dave Jones
2020-07-06 14:59         ` Peter Zijlstra
2020-07-06 21:20           ` Dave Jones
2020-07-07  7:48             ` Peter Zijlstra
2020-07-06 23:56           ` Valentin Schneider
2020-07-07  8:17             ` Peter Zijlstra
2020-07-07 10:20               ` Valentin Schneider
2020-07-07 10:29               ` Peter Zijlstra
2020-07-08  9:46                 ` [tip: sched/urgent] sched: Fix loadavg accounting race tip-bot2 for Peter Zijlstra
2020-07-07  9:20           ` weird loadavg on idle machine post 5.7 Qais Yousef
2020-07-07  9:47             ` Peter Zijlstra

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