* Ingo Molnar <mi...@kernel.org> wrote:
>
> * Linus Torvalds <torva...@linux-foundation.org> wrote:
>
> > On Fri, Dec 12, 2014 at 10:54 AM, Dave Jones <da...@redhat.com> wrote:
> >
> > >
> > > Something that's still making me wonder if it's some kind of
> > > hardware problem is the non-deterministic nature of this bug.
> >
> > I'd expect it to be a race condition, though. Which can easily
> > cause these kinds of issues, and the timing will be pretty
> > random even if the load is very regular.
> >
> > And we know that the scheduler has an integer overflow under
> > Sasha's loads, although I didn't hear anything from Ingo and
> > friends about it. Ingo/Peter, you were cc'd on that report,
> > where at least one of the multiplcations in wake_affine() ended
> > up overflowing..
>
> Just to make sure, is there any other wake_affine report other
> than the one in this thread? (I tried a wake_affine full text
> search on my inbox and didn't find anything that appeared
> relevant.)
Found the report from Sasha:
sched: odd values for effective load calculations
right?
Thanks,
Ingo
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