Hi, Yes. Not going to C4 when there are less wakeups is a known issue at this moment. There is work goin on with cpuidle infrastructure that will resolve this. You can expect that patch soon (within a week).
Thanks, Venki >-----Original Message----- >From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Stefan Ott >Sent: Tuesday, May 29, 2007 8:35 PM >To: [email protected] >Subject: Less wakeups - less time in C4? > >Hi! > >I have an IMHO rather weird behaviour: If I stop xfce4-panel, I get (as >expected) way less wakeups (ca. 65 instead of 110). However, instead of >spending more time in C4, this is how the CPU's state changes: > >With the panel: > >Cn Avg residency (10s) Long term residency avg >C0 (cpu running) ( 3.8%) >C1 0.0ms ( 0.0%) 0.0ms >C2 9.2ms (53.9%) 0.0ms >C3 6.2ms (25.8%) 0.0ms >C4 5.9ms (16.4%) 4.9ms > > >Without the panel > >Cn Avg residency (10s) Long term residency avg >C0 (cpu running) ( 1.0%) >C1 0.0ms ( 0.0%) 0.0ms >C2 17.0ms (74.2%) 0.0ms >C3 13.7ms (24.6%) 0.0ms >C4 5.2ms ( 0.2%) 4.8ms > > >As you see, C4 is hardly used anymore. How does this make sense? > >Anyway, thanks for this really nice tool - great work! > >Regards >-- >Stefan Ott >http://www.ottwerk.net/ > >09 F9 11 02 9D 74 E3 5B D8 41 56 C5 63 56 88 C0 > _______________________________________________ Power mailing list [email protected] http://www.bughost.org/mailman/listinfo/power
