Re: [ANNOUNCE] 4.4-rc6-rt1

[Mike Galbraith]

On Thu, 2016-01-14 at 15:17 +0100, Sebastian Andrzej Siewior wrote:
> * Sebastian Andrzej Siewior | 2016-01-13 18:58:45 [+0100]:
> 
> > This is due to NO_HZ as far as I can tell. My AMD A10 in idle mode
> > has
> > 0.7% utilisation of ksoftirqd/ with CONFIG_HZ_PERIODIC and with
> > CONFIG_NO_HZ_FULL it shows about 25% on all CPU threads.
> 
> This should fixed it:
> 
> --- a/kernel/time/timer.c
> +++ b/kernel/time/timer.c
> @@ -1453,7 +1453,7 @@ u64 get_next_timer_interrupt(unsigned long
> basej, u64 basem)
>  	 * the base lock to check when the next timer is pending and
> so
>  	 * we assume the next jiffy.
>  	 */
> -	return basej;
> +	return basem + TICK_NSEC;
>  #endif
>  	spin_lock(&base->lock);
>  	if (base->active_timers) {

That's what I had done to stop the screaming interrupt, but box still
behaved very badly.

	-Mike