linux-kernel - Re: 2.6.25 regression: powertop says 120K wakeups/sec

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Date:	Fri, 28 Mar 2008 12:01:53 -0700
From:	David Brownell <david-b@...bell.net>
To:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	venkatesh.pallipadi@...el.com
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@...k.pl>,
	linux-acpi@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: 2.6.25 regression: powertop says 120K wakeups/sec

On Saturday 22 March 2008, Andrew Morton wrote:
> On Sat, 22 Mar 2008 13:24:54 -0700 David Brownell <david-b@...bell.net> 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.

 
> > System is an Athlon64 single CPU laptop, and instead of reading a
> > few dozen wakeups per second, it says a many tens of thousands...
> > clearly wrong.  In previous kernels it gave more plausible counts;
> > unfortunately high because of various un-evolved desktop tools in
> > this Ubuntu system (Feisty).
> > 
> > Possibly more truthful, it says that the system never enters
> > C1 or C2, and spends all its time in C0.  Though if I look at
> > /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/cpuidle/state[01]/usage, that
> > seems to tell a different story ... it's C0 that's never used.
> > In previous kernels it reported time in both C0 and C2.  ISTR
> > some patch to avoid C2, which would explain part of this.
> > 
> > Comments or fixes, anyone?
> 
> This is likely to be an acpi regression, isn't it?
> 
> A git-bisect would be nice, please.

The git-bisect says the 120K wakeups/second comes from a patch
which unfortunately can't be directly reverted, so I didn't
verify that reverting it resolves that problem.  I've not tried
to do anything with the other C0/C1/C2 stuff.


$ git bisect good
bc71bec91f9875ef825d12104acf3bf4ca215fa4 is first bad commit
commit bc71bec91f9875ef825d12104acf3bf4ca215fa4
Author: venkatesh.pallipadi@...el.com <venkatesh.pallipadi@...el.com>
Date:   Thu Jan 31 17:35:04 2008 -0800

    ACPI: enable MWAIT for C1 idle
    
    Add MWAIT idle for C1 state instead of halt, on platforms that support
    C1 state with MWAIT.
    
    Renames cx->space_id to something more appropriate.
    
    Signed-off-by: Venkatesh Pallipadi <venkatesh.pallipadi@...el.com>
    Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@...el.com>

:040000 040000 88ebe48d024f7fb21237cd75dbc9c681c43252b1 8af87317facbd018b47e717ede6907d9a831f92c M	drivers
:040000 040000 ecd73d87c1b7b7004e06ffa3a2b3e7260c045543 934c38290353186cbaaaf27094d5c1712e548fcc M	include
$



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