Re: [Bug 11905] REGRESSION: lots of extra timer interrupts costing power

[Frans Pop]

Theodore Tso wrote:
> Hi, what's going on with this regression?  To refresh people's memory,
> I tracked down the excess interrupts to a specific commit, fb02fbc1,
> and I've been running quite happily with a patch to revert this
> commit.

Isn't that solved by this commit (included in -rc5)?

commit ae99286b4f1be7788f2d6947c66a91dbd6351eec
Author: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date:   Mon Nov 10 13:20:23 2008 +0100

    nohz: disable tick_nohz_kick_tick() for now
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