From: Ingo Molnar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Mon, 19 Nov 2007 10:43:38 +0100
> * David Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I suspect that what is happening is that the NOHZ period is longer > > than the softlockup timeout (10 seconds) and we get an interrupt > > before the watchdog thread gets onto the cpu. > > indeed! Does the patch below do the trick? I'm sure it works but it partly defeats the purpose of NOHZ. I really like it that my cpus sleep completely for hours at a time when not in use. :) Anyways, I'll give your patch a test. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
