Hi!

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> PS: I'm using the kernel with Gentoo patchset. But I confirmed the above
>     persists with the vanilla kernels.
> 
> PPS: I also played around with the timer frequency, and premption model.
>      Would those make a difference to CPU usage?

Yes. Or rather, it will make accounting more accurate, so that you see
that 1% cpu usage, unlike previous kernels where something still ate
cpu but kernel did not know it.
							Pavel
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