Re: [RFC] Patch: dynticks: idle load balancing

From: Siddha, Suresh B
Date: Tue Jan 30 2007 - 17:30:00 EST


Sorry for the delayed response. I was away on vacation.

Please let me know if you still see this issue with the latest -rt kernel.

thanks,
suresh

On Tue, Jan 16, 2007 at 12:35:05PM +0100, Ingo Molnar wrote:
>
> Suresh,
>
> on the latest -rt kernel, when the dynticks load-balancer is enabled,
> then a dual-core Core2 Duo test-system increases its irq rate from the
> normal 15/17 per second to 300-400/sec - on a completely idle system(!).
> Any idea what's going on? I'll disable the load balancer for now.
>
> Ingo
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