Re: [RFC] Patch: dynticks: idle load balancing

From: Ingo Molnar
Date: Tue Jan 16 2007 - 06:36:35 EST

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Suresh,

on the latest -rt kernel, when the dynticks load-balancer is enabled,
then a dual-core Core2 Duo test-system increases its irq rate from the
normal 15/17 per second to 300-400/sec - on a completely idle system(!).
Any idea what's going on? I'll disable the load balancer for now.

Ingo
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