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Message-ID: <4702C897.3030301@linux.intel.com>
Date: Tue, 02 Oct 2007 15:39:19 -0700
From: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@...ux.intel.com>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
CC: Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
Anders Bostr?m <anders@...trom.dyndns.org>,
linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: PROBLEM: high load average when idle
Linus Torvalds wrote:
>
> I wonder if the whole "round_jiffies()" thing should be written so that it
> never rounds down, or at least never rounds down to before the current
> second!
that's what it is supposed to do already...
166
167 if (j <= jiffies) /* rounding ate our timeout entirely; */
168 return original;
169 return j;
170 }
so there is always a gap of at least 1 jiffie no matter what
>
> I have to say, I also think it's a bit iffy to do "round_jiffies()" at all
> in that per-CPU kind of way. The "per-cpu" thing is quite possibly going
> to change by the time we actually add the timer, so the goal of trying to
> get wakeups to happen in "bunches" per CPU should really be done by
> setting a flag on the timer itself - so that we could do that rounding
> when the timer is actually added to the per-cpu queues!
it's pretty much the same thing though
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