Date: Sun, 7 Dec 2008 15:12:03 -0800
From: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>
To: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@sisk.pl>
Cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
       Kernel Testers List <kernel-testers@vger.kernel.org>,
       "Yves-Alexis Perez" <corsac@debian.org>
Subject: Re: [Bug #12152] Huge wakeups number from i1915
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On Sun, 7 Dec 2008 23:52:06 +0100
"Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@sisk.pl> wrote:

> On Sunday, 7 of December 2008, Arjan van de Ven wrote:
> > On Sun,  7 Dec 2008 21:32:54 +0100 (CET)
> > "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@sisk.pl> wrote:
> > 
> > > This message has been generated automatically as a part of a
> > > report of recent regressions.
> > > 
> > > The following bug entry is on the current list of known
> > > regressions from 2.6.27.  Please verify if it still should be
> > > listed and let me know (either way).
> > > 
> > > 
> > > Bug-Entry	:
> > > http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=12152
> > > Subject		: Huge wakeups number from i1915
> > > Submitter	: Yves-Alexis Perez <corsac@debian.org>
> > > Date		: 2008-12-02 16:48 (6 days old)
> > > References	:
> > > http://marc.info/?l=linux-acpi&m=122823656702994&w=4
> > > 
> > 
> > at least in some of the cases where this has been seen the cause is
> > the following:
> > The i915 DRM driver used to do polling for completion, busy
> > waiting. It moved to be interrupt driven, which is usually better
> > for power, but it will show up as more wakeups in powertop....
> 
> IOW, this is not a regression?

I don't know about this specifc case (not enough information) but for
the case I described it's not a regression. Going to interrupt driven
from busy waiting is an improvement not a regression :)

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