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SubjectRe: 2.6.24-rc6-git12: Reported regressions from 2.6.23

* Mark Lord <lkml@rtr.ca> wrote:

> Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
>> This message contains a list of some regressions from 2.6.23 reported since
>> 2.6.24-rc1 was released, for which there are no fixes in the mainline I know
>> of. If any of them have been fixed already, please let me know.
> ..
>> Subject : 20000+ wake-ups/second in 2.6.24
>> Submitter : Mark Lord <lkml@rtr.ca>
>> Date : 2007-12-02 04:23
>> References : http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/12/1/141
>> http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=9489
>> Handled-By : Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>
>>
> ..
>
> I have only seen that one once, and I think it was Arjan who said that
> it has been observed rarely by other people as well. The bugzilla
> entry is mostly just to track the darned thing, but it seems unlikely
> that anyone will find/fix it for 2.6.24. No big deal, but it would be
> good to have somebody knowledgeable in clocks/interrupts try and track
> it down.
>
> I wonder if it's just a babbling IRQ on resume, before the driver has
> run it's resume code or something ?

i've read the discussions, and i cannot see it analyzed anywhere _what_
causes the wakeups. And how are these wakeups counted? Is this based on
powertop output:

Wakeups-from-idle per second : 20.4 interval: 1.8s

? Somewhere i saw it mentioned that "the CPU throws out of C mode". What
does that mean - does it mean we try to idle again and again, but we
immediately return from C mode - while this all looks like "idle" time
to the scheduler (so 'top' will show lots of idle time), but the ACPI
wakeup counters are going up like mad? What is /proc/interrupts doing
when this happens - is any of the irq sources going upwards?

Ingo


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