On Sun, Nov 21, 2021 at 05:33:46PM +0000, Mihai Dragan wrote:
> Thank you,
>
> systat / vmstat shows an average of 450 interrupts per second constantly 
> coming from 'acpi0' after cold boot.
> I started disabling IO devices from BIOS and it turns out that the smartcard 
> reader was a red herring:
> it's the Thunderbolt 3 controller that seems to be causing this. It's the 
> only device that stops the issue from reproducing when disabled.
>
> I tried toggling the available TB3 options available in BIOS, but nothing 
> makes a difference.
> It's interesting that the spurious interrupts are generated regardless if 
> there's a device plugged into the thunderbolt port or not.
> Thunderbolt functionality seems perfectly fine, in both cold and warm boot.
>
>
> On 11/21, Todd C. Miller wrote:
> > On Sun, 21 Nov 2021 14:30:09 +0000, Mihai Dragan wrote:
> >
> > > Can I check from user space the interrupt count a device generates ?
> > > Any advice or hints on how to debug this further would be greatly appre
> > > ciated.
> >
> > Compare the output of "vmstat -i" after both cold and warm boot.
> >
> >  - todd
>
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