Re: [Bug 11905] REGRESSION: lots of extra timer interrupts costingpower

From: Theodore Tso
Date: Mon Nov 17 2008 - 14:57:06 EST


On Mon, Nov 17, 2008 at 10:36:48AM +0100, Frans Pop wrote:
> Theodore Tso wrote:
> > Hi, what's going on with this regression? To refresh people's memory,
> > I tracked down the excess interrupts to a specific commit, fb02fbc1,
> > and I've been running quite happily with a patch to revert this
> > commit.
>
> Isn't that solved by this commit (included in -rc5)?
>
> commit ae99286b4f1be7788f2d6947c66a91dbd6351eec
> Author: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Date: Mon Nov 10 13:20:23 2008 +0100
>
> nohz: disable tick_nohz_kick_tick() for now

Yep, so it is. Sorry, I missed that; I haven't migrated to -rc5 yet.

I'll close the Bugzilla entry.

- Ted
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