Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755970AbXLBPAO (ORCPT ); Sun, 2 Dec 2007 10:00:14 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1754049AbXLBO77 (ORCPT ); Sun, 2 Dec 2007 09:59:59 -0500 Received: from rtr.ca ([76.10.145.34]:1383 "EHLO mail.rtr.ca" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753859AbXLBO76 (ORCPT ); Sun, 2 Dec 2007 09:59:58 -0500 Message-ID: <4752C86D.8050909@rtr.ca> Date: Sun, 02 Dec 2007 09:59:57 -0500 From: Mark Lord User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.9 (X11/20071031) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Adrian Bunk Cc: Arjan van de Ven , "Pallipadi, Venkatesh" , Andrew Morton , abelay@novell.com, lenb@kernel.org, rjw@sisk.pl, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: 20000+ wake-ups/second in 2.6.24. Bug? References: <924EFEDD5F540B4284297C4DC59F3DEE2FAE6A@orsmsx423.amr.corp.intel.com> <20071130142058.816d1693.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <924EFEDD5F540B4284297C4DC59F3DEE2FAEAF@orsmsx423.amr.corp.intel.com> <4750CC78.9070105@rtr.ca> <20071130190227.1976e682@laptopd505.fenrus.org> <4750D180.6080001@rtr.ca> <20071130191816.3e744205@laptopd505.fenrus.org> <4750D585.1030200@rtr.ca> <4750D899.4020905@rtr.ca> <4751F1AB.2060801@rtr.ca> <20071202144113.GJ15974@stusta.de> In-Reply-To: <20071202144113.GJ15974@stusta.de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1554 Lines: 42 Adrian Bunk wrote: > On Sat, Dec 01, 2007 at 06:43:39PM -0500, Mark Lord wrote: >> Mark Lord wrote: >>> Arjan van de Ven wrote: >>>> On Fri, 30 Nov 2007 22:31:17 -0500 >>>> Mark Lord wrote: >> ... >>>>> Speaking of which.. what's with powertop on 2.6.24 ??? >>>>> It's gone from 100-200 wakeups/sec to 20000 wakeups/sec !!!!!!! >>>> ho hum.. Lenovo T61? >>>> I have some reports that that happens once in a while (but it's not >>>> limited to .24 and it's also real, it's not a powertop bug but it >>>> actually is waking up that much).. >>> .. >>> >>> No, it's my hefty Dell Inspiron 9400. >>> >>> And I just figured out the powertop: it needed the kernel timers >>> patch from the powertop site that was originally for 2.6.21.. >> ... >> >> Dagnabbit.. it's done it again.. went from 100-200 wakeups/sec >> back up to 20000+ wakeups/sec. This time *with* the powertop patches in place. > > What is the status with an unpatched 2.6.23? .. More wakeups than without patching, but still on the order of hundreds of wakeups/sec; nowhere near the 20000+ wakeups/sec range when it goes wonky. > Please send the output of "dmesg -s 1000000" for both 2.6.23 and 2.6.24. .. Okay, I'll do a couple of reboots and collect that info for private email, and maybe post a diff of the two here. Cheers -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/