Re: Very high CPU values in top on idle system (3.0-rc1)

From: Markus Trippelsdorf
Date: Tue May 31 2011 - 06:04:41 EST


On 2011.05.31 at 11:55 +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> On Tue, 2011-05-31 at 00:12 +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> >
> > I poked around with some skip_rq_update bits but couldn't make it go
> > away, will try more tomorrow.
>
> Gah, that was annoying, and explains why I wasn't seeing it on my main
> dev box but could see it on my desktop (wsm tsc is much better synced
> than the core2 tsc).
>
> Could you confirm that this indeed cures the problem?

Yes, indeed it does. Many thanks Peter.

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Markus
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