Re: balance storm

Mike Galbraith
2014-05-28T08:16:50Z

On Wed, 2014-05-28 at 14:54 +0800, Libo Chen wrote:
> On 2014/5/28 9:53, Mike Galbraith wrote:
> > On Wed, 2014-05-28 at 09:04 +0800, Libo Chen wrote:
> >
> >> oh yes, no tsc only hpet in my box.
> >
> > Making poor E5-2658 box a crippled wreck.
>
> yes,it is. But cpu usage will be down from 15% to 5% when binding cpu, so maybe read_hpet
> is not the root cause.

I don't think anyone will be particularly interested in making kernel
changes based upon the behavior of a broken box. The problem we were
discussing is real enough though, it's just a question of severity.

-Mike