linux-kernel - Re: timer.c - high load avarage with idle cpu

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Message-ID: <20101201155441.GA22342@brouette>
Date:	Wed, 1 Dec 2010 16:54:41 +0100
From:	Damien Wyart <damien.wyart@...e.fr>
To:	Harry Nak <harrynak@...il.com>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
Subject: Re: timer.c - high load avarage with idle cpu

Hi,

> [...]
> My solution is to postpone the call to run_local_timers() until
> scheduler_tick() has been called.

> Could anybody confirm my theory and is it possible that my solution
> breaks anything?

Your problem might be related to this thread:
https://lkml.org/lkml/2010/9/29/51

-- 
Damien
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