linux-kernel - Re: New wake ups from sky2

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Message-ID: <46A1CB36.5010609@m3y3r.de>
Date:	Sat, 21 Jul 2007 11:00:38 +0200
From:	Thomas Meyer <thomas@...3r.de>
To:	Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: New wake ups from sky2

Stephen Hemminger schrieb:
> Thomas Meyer <thomas@...3r.de> wrote:
>
>   
>> Today i did a git pull to be up to date again and i noticed in the
>> powertop tool that i'll get this new entry
>>
>>   14,2% (  9,1)     <kernel core> : sky2_probe (sky2_idle)
>>
>> with around 10 interrupts per second.
>>
>> i think (i.e. i don't know and just guessing!) this commit is
>> responsible for these wake ups:
>>
>> git show eb35cf60e462491249166182e3e755d3d5d91a28
>>
>> Author: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@...l.org>
>> Date:   Tue Jun 13 17:17:31 2006 +0900
>>
>>     [PATCH] sky2: stop/start hardware idle timer on suspend/resume
>>
>>     The resume bug was caused not by an early interrupt but because the idle
>>     timeout was not being stopped on suspend.  Also disable hardware IRQ's
>>     on suspend.  Will need to revisit this with hotplug?
>>
>>     Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@...l.org>
>>     Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...l.org>
>>
>> Any ideas?
>>
>>     
>
> Last version has idle timer enabled.
> It is a tradeoff between device hanging due to lost interrupt or wasting power.
> You can make the timeout longer by setting idle_timeout module parameter larger,
> (or zero which will disable it).
>   
Ok. But do you need to start the timer when no cable is plugged in, like
in the case above?

mfg
thomas

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