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The cpuidle subsystem

The cpuidle subsystem

Posted Apr 27, 2010 6:14 UTC (Tue) by koch (subscriber, #55163)
In reply to: The cpuidle subsystem by nix
Parent article: The cpuidle subsystem

The kernel on my dual-core laptop is compiled with NO_HZ, but still keeps itself warm and awake with these "load balancing ticks". There seems to be a bug (with fixes) filed for Ubuntu, describing these symptoms.


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The cpuidle subsystem

Posted Apr 27, 2010 9:37 UTC (Tue) by nix (subscriber, #2304) [Link]

Er, the linked bug is an ACPI bug causing temperature sensing to fail on resume from suspend on some laptops. I doubt it's related to a load-balancing tick on a big beefy quad-core Nehalem server :)

(did you paste in the wrong link?)

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