linux-kernel - 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)

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Date:	Wed, 20 Oct 2010 15:30:40 +0200
From:	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
To:	Damien Wyart <damien.wyart@...e.fr>
Cc:	Chase Douglas <chase.douglas@...onical.com>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>, tmhikaru@...il.com,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: 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)

On Wed, 2010-10-20 at 15:27 +0200, Damien Wyart wrote:
> 
> Should'nt we enlarge the list of CC, because for now, responsivity has
> been close to 0 and it seems we will get a 2.6.36 with buggy load avg
> calculation. Even if it is only statistics, many supervision tools rely
> on the load avg, so for production environments, this is not a good
> thing. 

It already contains all the folks who know the code I'm afraid.. :/

I've been playing with it a bit more today, but haven't actually managed
to make it better, just differently worse..
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