Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Wed, 7 Feb 2001 19:37:16 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Wed, 7 Feb 2001 19:37:06 -0500 Received: from mercury.nildram.co.uk ([195.112.4.37]:17938 "EHLO mercury.nildram.co.uk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Wed, 7 Feb 2001 19:36:54 -0500 Message-ID: <3A81E707.1060705@magenta-netlogic.com> Date: Thu, 08 Feb 2001 00:23:35 +0000 From: Tony Hoyle Organization: Magenta Logic User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux 2.4.1 i686; en-US; m18) Gecko/20010126 X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Grover, Andrew" CC: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, "Acpi-linux (E-mail)" Subject: Re: ACPI slowdown... In-Reply-To: <4148FEAAD879D311AC5700A0C969E8905DE666@orsmsx35.jf.intel.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Grover, Andrew wrote: > Since you have a symtomatic system, if you're willing to do some testing to > either prove or disprove your theory (that entering C2/C3 interrupts enabled > helps things) I would greatly appreciate it. Leaving interrupts enabled does help a little, but the machine is still unusably slow, so it's not the fix. > Also, the next ACPI update will let you disable using this code for idle (so > we have some breathing room while we fix it) and will print some more C > state info on boot, because although you don't say, it sounds like you have > a desktop system, which usually don't support C2/C3, and so should not be > trying to enter them. Disabling the idle code definitely fixes it. Tony - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/