Re: 2.6.25 regression: powertop says 120K wakeups/sec

[David Brownell]

On Friday 28 March 2008, Pallipadi, Venkatesh wrote:

> >> > I noticed this with 2.6.25-rc2 (if not before), and the problem
> >> > is still there with 2.6.25-rc6-git (as of this AM).
> >
> >A 2.6.24 kernel I still had stashed away didn't act odd; the
> >problem joined us before 2.6.25-rc1 was tagged.
> >
> 
> There was a fix that went in recently (one or two days back) that should
> have fixed this.
> Commit 8e92b6605da989
> 
> Can you check with latest git to see whether this is still a problem?

The problem is still there in GIT as of this morning, which
includes 8e92b6605da989 ...

Comments on why bc71bec91f9875ef825d12104acf3bf4ca215fa4 seems
to be causing this?  I think it's just bad reports getting to
userspace, rather than an actual 120K wakeups/second.  (The
report is of course not always 120K, but it's usually in that
range.)

- Dave
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