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Message-ID: <4702D6E1.4060705@rtr.ca>
Date:	Tue, 02 Oct 2007 19:40:17 -0400
From:	Mark Lord <lkml@....ca>
To:	Arjan van de Ven <arjan@...ux.intel.com>
Cc:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	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

Arjan van de Ven wrote:
> On Tue, 02 Oct 2007 18:46:18 -0400
>> On a related note, {set/get}itimer() currently are buggy (since
>> 2.6.11 or so), also due to this round_jiffies() thing I believe.
> 
> I very much believe that it is totally unrelated... most of all since
> round_jiffies() wasn't in the kernel then an also isn't used anywhere
> near these timers.

Ah, yes, you're correct.  The itimer routines do their *own* rounding.

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