Re: [2.6.25-stable PATCH] regression: powertop says 120K wakeups/sec

From: Daniel Klaffenbach
Date: Tue Apr 29 2008 - 05:13:33 EST


Pallipadi, Venkatesh wrote:
> With git11+wakeup patch, things seems to be working fine as per
>
> >http://www-user.tu-chemnitz.de/~klada/misc/kernel/cpuidle_git11_wakeupp
>
> atch.txt
>
> CPU is spending most of the time in C3 state. Looks like there is some
> problem with
> powertop reporting here. I know there were some changes to this area in
> powertop.
> Can you try the latest powertop version from svn
> (http://www.lesswatts.org/projects/powertop/download.php) and see
> whether the issue is fixed.
>
> Thanks,
> Venki
You are right, with powertop-svn C2-usage is being displayed properly. I hope
your patch is going to make it to the stable tree pretty soon.

Thank you,
Daniel

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