Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 9 Nov 2010 21:37:56 -0500 | From | tmhikaru@gmail ... | Subject | Re: High CPU load when machine is idle (related to PROBLEM: Unusually high load average when idle in 2.6.35, 2.6.35.1 and later) |
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On Tue, Nov 09, 2010 at 08:02:28PM +0100, Peter Zijlstra wrote: > On Tue, 2010-11-09 at 13:55 -0500, Kyle McMartin wrote: > > On Fri, Oct 29, 2010 at 09:42:23PM +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote: > > > > > > not tested other than compile, but how does that look...? > > > > > > > Hi Peter, > > > > I finally got around to building a test kernel for a user who had been > > reporting this against F-14 (2.6.35) but they report there's not much > > improvement. > > > > Sorry. :/ > > Right, I tested it myself yesterday and got similar results. Does the > 'simple' patch from a few posts back work for people? > > http://lkml.org/lkml/2010/10/26/150 > > If that does work I fudged the fancy math, if that doesn't work either > we're back to square zero.
I seem to remember someone saying this would only work on x86-64; if this is meant to work with a 32bit intel single core processor, please let me know - I'd like to try it. It would also help if I knew which kernel version this simpler patch is meant to apply to.
Thank you, Tim McGrath [unhandled content-type:application/pgp-signature] | |