Thomas Gleixner schrieb: > On Sat, 2007-04-28 at 18:27 +0200, Michal Piotrowski wrote: > >> Subject : Bad interaction between dynticks and amarok? >> References : http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/4/26/307 >> Submitter : Thomas Meyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> Status : Unknow >> > > Michal, > > I don't think this is a regression. What Thomas wanted to point out is, > that the amarok / sound device is making the positive effect of dynticks > moot, as it starts to trigger useless interrupts. > > Thomas, is my interpretation correct ? Did you check, which interrupt > was increasing - i.e. was it the soundcard one ? > No, it wasn't the soundcard one. but i had this effect with amarok and audacious... so, i guessed... which was wrong.
It's the timer interrupt (+50-70 timer interrupts). But i'm not sure what both applications are doing, while they are "idle"... with kind regards thomas - 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/
