Re: Regression: 20 ACPI interrupts per second on EEEPC 4G

[Alan Jenkins]

Alexey Starikovskiy wrote:
> Alan Jenkins wrote:
> > On latest git, powertop shows 20 ACPI interrupts per second.  
> > Previously, this was closer to 1 per second.  See attached output (a 
> > vs b, "a" is from 2.6.29-rc8).
> >
> > This is from a pretty sparse KDE desktop.  Normally I run 
> > gnome-power-manager, but I killed it to make sure that wasn't causing 
> > any problems.

> > gpe18:   60975  enabled
> > gpe_all:   60975
> > sci:   60975
> >
> > which I presume means lots of EC interrupts.
> >
> > [    0.134068] ACPI: EC: GPE = 0x18, I/O: command/status = 0x66, data 
> > = 0x62

> This patch looks to be a suspect: 
> 34ff4dbccccce54c83b1234d39b7ad9e548a75dd,
> Please check if reversing it helps

No, I still get 20 ACPI interrupts per second.

I tried without powertop, just in case that was provoking it, but it 
still happens:

alan@alan-eeepc:/sys/firmware/acpi/interrupts$ cat sci; sleep 5; cat sci
   2583
   2680

Thanks
Alan
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