stephane eranian <eranian@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > Same result for me on CPU1: > > top - 16:20:24 up 1:45, 1 user, load average: 0.29, 0.08, 0.07 > Tasks: 70 total, 2 running, 68 sleeping, 0 stopped, 0 zombie > Cpu(s): 30.7%us, 2.7%sy, 0.0%ni, 66.7%id, 0.0%wa, 0.0%hi, 0.0%si, 0.0%st > Mem: 940232k total, 228984k used, 711248k free, 82244k buffers > Swap: 524240k total, 0k used, 524240k free, 91400k cached > > PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ P COMMAND > 3968 eranian 20 0 644 160 128 R 100 0.0 0:21.98 1 noploop > 3969 eranian 20 0 2184 1056 804 R 3 0.1 0:00.53 0 top > 82 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 1 0.0 0:01.35 0 > kworker/0:1 > > With 3.3.0-rc1, if I revert the clockdomain patch, I get the same result. > So it must be coming from somewhere else, as you suggested. > > If the processor was spending time processing interrupts, then this would be > accounted for in as sys time. But that's not what I observe here. It's either > idle or user. That line, leads me to believe that the processor can only run > my program for 30% of the time. The rest is spent idling even though my > program is non-blocking. How could that be possible? Power-saving? In top, press 1 to see the statistics for the CPUs separately. -- Måns Rullgård mans@xxxxxxxxx -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-omap" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html