linux-kernel - Re: Strange load average and ksoftirqd behavior with 2.6.29-rc2-git1

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Message-ID: <20090127175352.GB3116@localhost.localdomain>
Date:	Tue, 27 Jan 2009 18:53:52 +0100
From:	Damien Wyart <damien.wyart@...e.fr>
To:	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Strange load average and ksoftirqd behavior with
	2.6.29-rc2-git1

Hello,

> > Testing 2.6.29-rc2-git1, I notice something which doesn't happen with
> > 2.6.28.1 on the same machine with the same config (minus new config
> > entries for 2.6.29) : when the machine is idle, the load average
> > reported by top is not 0.00 (it is with 2.6.28.1) but between 0.30 and
> > 0.80 and either ksoftirqd/0 or ksoftirqd/1 is listed as number one in
> > top output, with a few % of CPU. The machine seems to work fine but
> > I think something is still wrong.

> The problem is still present in 2.6.29-rc2-git3 on this P4 machine,
> but I do not see it on a Centrino laptop.

Sorry for this half-true claim, after double check, the problem is
*also* present on the Centrino laptop.

-- 
Damien Wyart
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