Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 23 Mar 2011 19:15:57 +0100 | From | Andreas Hartmann <> | Subject | Re: intel_ips produces constant load of 1 |
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Jesse Barnes wrote: > On Mon, 21 Mar 2011 11:04:04 -0700 > Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@virtuousgeek.org> wrote: > >>> ps aux | grep ips >>> root 593 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S 17:20 0:00 >>> [ips-adjust] >>> root 594 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? D 17:20 0:00 >>> [ips-monitor] >>> >>> If the module isn't loaded, the load of the machine in idle mode is 0 as >>> expected. >> >> This is a reporting problem, and probably due to the schedule() call >> and associated task state in the ips-monitor thread. I thought setting >> the task state to interruptible would prevent this, but it seems like >> it's not enough for the deferrable on-stack timers? >> >> At any rate, it's not actually causing increased CPU usage, so you can >> safely ignore it until we have a fix. > > Oops, one task uses interruptible correctly, but the monitor thread > doesn't. > > Does this patch fix your load average?
Which patch? I can't see any patch :-).
Andreas
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