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Date: Tue, 17 Feb 2009 22:48:29 +0100
From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
To: Damien Wyart <damien.wyart@free.fr>
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Subject: Re: [Bug #12650] Strange load average and ksoftirqd behavior with
	2.6.29-rc2-git1
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* Damien Wyart <damien.wyart@free.fr> wrote:

> Hello Paul,
> 
> > > There's no strong reason - we've been back and forth about RCU in
> > > the dynticks code. Mind sending a test patch for Damien to try?
> 
> > But of course!  ;-)
> 
> With this patch, the problem goes away and system activity 
> seems normal, both on the P4 with high load and on the recent 
> laptop.

Applied to tip:x86/urgent, thanks a lot for the patient testing 
and tracing!

	Ingo