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)

From: Damien Wyart
Date: Wed Oct 20 2010 - 16:25:10 EST


* Peter Zijlstra <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> [101020 19:26]:
> OK, how does this work for people? I find my idle load is still a tad
> high, but maybe I'm not patient enough.

Looks quite fine after some basic tests, much saner than without the
patch. A bit slow to go down, but I reach 0.00 after enough time being
idle.

Can't tell about the behavior after hours of uptime, of course, but the
values during the first minutes after bootup seems OK; without the
patch, they are evidently wrong...

Maybe commit this after some more reviews in the next 1 or 2 days, and
maybe think about further tweaking during 2.6.37?

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Damien
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