Bug#674153: [3.2.16 - 3.2.17 regression] High reported CPU load when idle

2012-07-29 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Mon, 2012-07-23 at 08:56 -0700, Doug Smythies wrote: [...] With only a superficial few hours on each kernel, I verified The problem with kernel 3.2.23 and no problem with kernel 3.2.23 + patch. Note: the majority of my testing (one or two hundred hours) were Done with Ubuntu server

Bug#674153: [3.2.16 - 3.2.17 regression] High reported CPU load when idle

2012-07-23 Thread Doug Smythies
On 2012.07.17 16:26 -0700 Jonathan Nieder wrote: Please test the attached patch against a 3.2.y kernel, for example following the instructions below: 0. prerequisites: apt-get install git build-essential 1. get the kernel history, if you don't already have it: git clone \

Bug#674153: [3.2.16 - 3.2.17 regression] High reported CPU load when idle

2012-07-19 Thread Lesław Kopeć
On 07/18/2012 01:25 AM, Jonathan Nieder wrote: Anders Boström wrote: Starting with 3.2.17-1, the CPU load accounting is broken when the computer is idle. The CPU load is reported as 0.50 when idle. 3.2.16-1 don't suffer from this problem. Suspected patch is the upstream patch sched: Fix

Bug#674153: [3.2.16 - 3.2.17 regression] High reported CPU load when idle

2012-07-19 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Thu, 2012-07-19 at 11:12 +0200, Lesław Kopeć wrote: On 07/18/2012 01:25 AM, Jonathan Nieder wrote: Anders Boström wrote: Starting with 3.2.17-1, the CPU load accounting is broken when the computer is idle. The CPU load is reported as 0.50 when idle. 3.2.16-1 don't suffer from this

Bug#674153: [3.2.16 - 3.2.17 regression] High reported CPU load when idle

2012-07-17 Thread Jonathan Nieder
tags 674153 = upstream patch moreinfo quit Hi again, Anders Boström wrote: Starting with 3.2.17-1, the CPU load accounting is broken when the computer is idle. The CPU load is reported as 0.50 when idle. 3.2.16-1 don't suffer from this problem. Suspected patch is the upstream patch sched: