2010-08-04 20:38:31

by Dave Jones

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Subject: excessive wakeups in 2.6.35

My laptop felt like it was about to burst into flames after I ran
2.6.35 on it for a while. It actually got too hot to place on my legs.
Powertop showed it running over a 1000 wakeups a second while completely idle.

Chuck Ebbert pointed me at this diff..
http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/x86/linux-2.6-tip.git;a=commitdiff;h=396e894d289d69bacf5acd983c97cd6e21a14c08

which brings it back down to a much more respectable 80 wakeups a second.

Is this lined up for 2.6.35.1 ?

Dave


2010-08-05 03:47:37

by Mike Galbraith

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Subject: Re: excessive wakeups in 2.6.35

On Wed, 2010-08-04 at 16:38 -0400, Dave Jones wrote:
> My laptop felt like it was about to burst into flames after I ran
> 2.6.35 on it for a while. It actually got too hot to place on my legs.

Nomex + bigger battery :)

> Powertop showed it running over a 1000 wakeups a second while completely idle.
>
> Chuck Ebbert pointed me at this diff..
> http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/x86/linux-2.6-tip.git;a=commitdiff;h=396e894d289d69bacf5acd983c97cd6e21a14c08
>
> which brings it back down to a much more respectable 80 wakeups a second.
>
> Is this lined up for 2.6.35.1 ?

Yeah, it's tagged. More trouble than it's worth, optimization dies.

-Mike