linux-kernel - Re: High power consumption after suspend/resume cycle

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Date:	Fri, 2 Oct 2009 15:29:24 -0400
From:	Andrew Lutomirski <luto@....edu>
To:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-thinkpad@...ux-thinkpad.org
Cc:	pm list <linux-pm@...ts.linux-foundation.org>,
	ACPI Devel Maling List <linux-acpi@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: High power consumption after suspend/resume cycle

[Adding cc's to linux-pm and linux-acpi and ]

On Fri, Oct 2, 2009 at 1:44 PM, Andrew Lutomirski <luto@....edu> wrote:
> Hi all-
>
> I'm running a git kernel that's slightly newer than 2.6.32-rc1.
>
> First, thanks for all the great work everywhere on laptop power
> consumption -- on my Lenovo X200s, it looks like Linux is getting
> close to Windows (Windows wins by about 0.7W, except that its power
> usage frequently spikes since Windows apparently still doesn't know
> how to sit still and do nothing, whereas Linux's seems more stable.),
> even running KDE with compositing enabled and
> while connected to wifi, at least after some tweaking.

[fixed irrelevant typo above, too.]

>
> There's a catch, though: after a suspend/resume cycle, power
> consumption goes up by over well over a watt.  (On a system that draws
> about 7 watts before suspending, that's a big deal.)  I've tried
> turning off X, suspending with 'echo mem > /sys/power/state' to avoid
> any distro scripts running, and manually restoring SATA power saving
> settings, but it still happens.  I even tried unbinding e1000e and
> both USB drivers, unloading the i2400 (wimax) driver, iwlagn, and
> iwlcore, and it still happens.  This is 100% reproducible, and I'd be
> happy to test things.
>
> This could be a BIOS bug I suppose (although I'm running the latest
> BIOS), but Windows 7 does not have this problem at all.
>
> Any ideas about what to try or what subsystem to blame?
>
> I'm running Fedora 11 if that makes any difference.

This is actually more like 90% reproducible.  I've gotten it to stay
in low power after suspend a couple times with HAL disabled, but I
can't reliably reproduce *that*, either.

>
> Thanks,
> Andy
>
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