Re: timer.c - high load avarage with idle cpu

[Harry Nak]

Damien Wyart <damien.wyart@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>> [...]
>> My solution is to postpone the call to run_local_timers() until
>> scheduler_tick() has been called.
>
>> Could anybody confirm my theory and is it possible that my solution
>> breaks anything?
>
> Your problem might be related to this thread:
> https://lkml.org/lkml/2010/9/29/51

Thanks for the hint. However from what I have read in this thread,
this deals specifically with a tickless kernel, while my issue
manifests on a regular HZ kernel.

- Harry
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