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

From: Pallipadi, Venkatesh
Date: Fri Mar 28 2008 - 19:05:22 EST




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>From: linux-acpi-owner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>[mailto:linux-acpi-owner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Rafael
>J. Wysocki
>Sent: Friday, March 28, 2008 4:01 PM
>To: Pallipadi, Venkatesh
>Cc: David Brownell; Andrew Morton;
>linux-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx; linux-acpi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx; Len Brown
>Subject: Re: 2.6.25 regression: powertop says 120K wakeups/sec
>
>On Friday, 28 of March 2008, Venki Pallipadi wrote:
>> On Fri, Mar 28, 2008 at 03:09:22PM -0700, David Brownell wrote:
>> > On Friday 28 March 2008, Pallipadi, Venkatesh wrote:
>> > > You should have a dmesg line which looks like
>> > > ACPI: CPU0 (power states: C1[C1] C2[C2]
>> > > Do you see C2 in such line?
>> >
>> > Yes:
>> >
>> > ACPI: CPU0 (power states: C1[C1] C2[C2])
>>
>>
>> David,
>>
>> I think I figured out the bug...
>>
>> Can you try the below patch and confirm that it works (over
>upstream - ignore
>> the earlier revert patch I sent to you).
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Venki
>>
>> ----
>>
>>
>> Patch to fix huge number of wakeups reported due to recent changes in
>> processor_idle.c. The problem was that the entry_method
>determination was
>> broken due to one of the recent commits (bc71bec91f987) causing
>> C1 entry to not to go to halt. This should also fix the hang
>reported here.
>> http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=10093
>
>Ah, thanks for figuring that out. As a regression fix, it
>should go upstream
>ASAP, I think.
>

Lets just wait for confirmation from either David or in bug #10093. Yes.
Once we get that confirmation this should go upstream.

Thanks,
Venki
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