linux-kernel - Re: [Bug 11905] REGRESSION: lots of extra timer interrupts costing power

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Date:	Mon, 17 Nov 2008 14:53:52 -0500
From:	Theodore Tso <tytso@....EDU>
To:	Frans Pop <elendil@...net.nl>
Cc:	eo@...ensachen.de, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	tglx@...utronix.de, mingo@...e.hu,
	bugme-daemon@...zilla.kernel.org, akpm@...ux-foundation.org
Subject: Re: [Bug 11905] REGRESSION: lots of extra timer interrupts costing
	power

On Mon, Nov 17, 2008 at 10:36:48AM +0100, Frans Pop wrote:
> Theodore Tso wrote:
> > Hi, what's going on with this regression?  To refresh people's memory,
> > I tracked down the excess interrupts to a specific commit, fb02fbc1,
> > and I've been running quite happily with a patch to revert this
> > commit.
> 
> Isn't that solved by this commit (included in -rc5)?
> 
> commit ae99286b4f1be7788f2d6947c66a91dbd6351eec
> Author: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
> Date:   Mon Nov 10 13:20:23 2008 +0100
> 
>     nohz: disable tick_nohz_kick_tick() for now

Yep, so it is.  Sorry, I missed that; I haven't migrated to -rc5 yet.

I'll close the Bugzilla entry.

							- Ted
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