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From: Mark Lord <lkml@rtr.ca>
To: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	Anders Bostr?m <anders@bostrom.dyndns.org>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: PROBLEM: high load average when idle
Date: Tue, 02 Oct 2007 19:40:17 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4702D6E1.4060705@rtr.ca> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20071002162247.26316b3b@laptopd505.fenrus.org>

Arjan van de Ven wrote:
> On Tue, 02 Oct 2007 18:46:18 -0400
>> On a related note, {set/get}itimer() currently are buggy (since
>> 2.6.11 or so), also due to this round_jiffies() thing I believe.
> 
> I very much believe that it is totally unrelated... most of all since
> round_jiffies() wasn't in the kernel then an also isn't used anywhere
> near these timers.

Ah, yes, you're correct.  The itimer routines do their *own* rounding.

-ml

  reply	other threads:[~2007-10-02 23:40 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-10-02 21:37 PROBLEM: high load average when idle Anders Boström
2007-10-02 22:07 ` Andrew Morton
2007-10-02 22:32   ` Linus Torvalds
2007-10-02 22:39     ` Arjan van de Ven
2007-10-02 22:46     ` Mark Lord
2007-10-02 23:22       ` Arjan van de Ven
2007-10-02 23:40         ` Mark Lord [this message]
2007-10-02 23:19     ` Arjan van de Ven
2007-10-02 22:33   ` Chuck Ebbert
2007-10-02 23:26     ` Arjan van de Ven
2007-10-03 17:32       ` Chuck Ebbert
2007-10-03 18:02         ` Linus Torvalds
2007-10-03 18:20           ` Arjan van de Ven
2007-10-03 18:28             ` Linus Torvalds
2007-10-03 18:29               ` Arjan van de Ven
2007-10-03 20:15           ` Anders Boström
2007-10-03 18:34   ` Anders Boström
2007-10-02 23:13 ` Arjan van de Ven
2007-10-03  7:04   ` Anders Boström
2007-10-03  9:40 ` Thorsten Kranzkowski

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