Re: rcu_preempt running flat out on idle desktop.

From: Dave Jones
Date: Thu Jun 20 2013 - 15:10:49 EST


On Wed, Jun 12, 2013 at 11:34:07AM -0400, Dave Jones wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 06, 2013 at 05:43:13PM +0200, Frederic Weisbecker wrote:
>
> > > Every process 200% or 0%.
> >
> > I see, would you mind testing this branch?
> >
> > git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip.git
> > timers/urgent
> >
> > It might help, I specially think about 45eacc692771bd2b1ea3d384e6345cab3da10861
> > ("vtime: Use consistent clocks among nohz accounting") which fixes an issue
> > with cputime accounting that resulted in similar symptoms.
>
> So that patch has been in 'urgent' for a month. Can someone move it
> to really-urgent or whatever is necessary to get it into Linus' tree ?

Another week passes...

This is kind of ridiculous.

Dave
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