Comment 92 for bug 524281

Jorge and Brian,

Thanks for your input and ppa. Much appreciated. My reading of the kernel LKML discussion is that something rather serious was screwed up in the implementation of the nohz part of the kernel scheduler and that the patch was a first test of this idea. The results there and in this bug thread seem to confirm that suspicion but I would be more comfortable if the two kernel developers in that thread (Peter Zijlstra and Arjan Van de Ven) had further responded on the issue. Perhaps a Ubuntu kernel developer should engage with these devs on LKML to clear this issue up...