On Wed, Oct 03, 2007 at 05:25:37PM -0400, Alan Stern wrote:
> On Wed, 3 Oct 2007, Sarah Sharp wrote:
> 
> > On Wed, Oct 03, 2007 at 02:29:49PM +0100, Alan Jenkins wrote:
> > > My internet arrives via a USB 2.0 wireless adaptor.
> > > Using UHCI instead of EHCI saves ~5 wakeup/s:
> > > 
> > > With ehci_hcd loaded (and not uhci_hcd):
> > >   31.1% ( 10.0)     <kernel core> : ehci_work (ehci_watchdog)
> > >   30.4% (  9.8)       <interrupt> : ehci_hcd:usb5
> 
> Pardon me, but can somebody explain what those numbers mean?  Are they 
> an average number of interrupts per second?

They're output from powertop (http://www.linuxpowertop.org/).  In this
case, ehci_work is responsible for 31.1% of all interrupts in the
system, and it's averaging 10 interrrupts per second.  Sorry for not
sending all the context.

> > > With uhci_hcd loaded (and not ehci_hcd):
> > >   48.0% (  9.8)       <interrupt> : uhci_hcd:usb1
> > >   19.6% (  4.0)   <kernel module> : usb_hcd_poll_rh_status (rh_timer_func)

Sarah Sharp

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