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)

[Damien Wyart]

* Peter Zijlstra <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> [101130 15:59]:
> OK, so here's a less crufty patch that gets the same result on my
> machine, load drops down to 0.00 after a while.

Seems OK too here.

> It seems a bit slower to reach 0.00, but that could be because
> I actually changed the load computation for NO_HZ=n as well, I added
> a rounding factor in calc_load(), we no longer truncate the division.

Yes, really feels slower, but in the two configurations as you write.
Then this is a matter of convention, do not know which version is more
"correct" or "natural", but this is coherent in the two modes (HZ and
NO_HZ).

Do you plan to push this one to upstream/stable, or do you plan further
modifications?


Thanks for your patches,
-- 
Damien Wyart
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