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

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Message-ID: <924EFEDD5F540B4284297C4DC59F3DEEC83CDD@orsmsx423.amr.corp.intel.com>
Date:	Fri, 28 Mar 2008 12:13:22 -0700
From:	"Pallipadi, Venkatesh" <venkatesh.pallipadi@...el.com>
To:	"David Brownell" <david-b@...bell.net>,
	"Andrew Morton" <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:	<linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@...k.pl>,
	<linux-acpi@...r.kernel.org>, "Len Brown" <lenb@...nel.org>
Subject: RE: 2.6.25 regression: powertop says 120K wakeups/sec

>-----Original Message-----
>From: David Brownell [mailto:david-b@...bell.net] 
>Sent: Friday, March 28, 2008 12:02 PM
>To: Andrew Morton; Pallipadi, Venkatesh
>Cc: linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org; Rafael J. Wysocki; 
>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.
>

There was a fix that went in recently (one or two days back) that should
have fixed this.
Commit 8e92b6605da989

Can you check with latest git to see whether this is still a problem?

Thanks,
Venki
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