On Friday 28 March 2008, Arjan van de Ven wrote: > Bruce Duncan wrote: > > (Please cc me in replies) > > > > Hi all, > > > > Any ideas why I get such a ridiculously high number of wakeups per second > > that > > I can't account for? > > if this is a recent 2.6.25 kernel, this is a known bug (my own PC shows it); > Venki fixed this on Monday so hopefully the fix will make it into 2.6.25
It went upstream today, so it should be included in linux-2.6.25-rc7-git3 http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commitdiff;h=8e92b6605da989c0aa8ff7e33306f36f0efd957c cheers, -Len > > > > Also, why aren't tick_sched_timer's wakeups included in the powertop > > output? > > those aren't actual wakups, they're the mechanism for which real wakeups are > done. > PowerTOP deliberately doesn't show these because > 1) they're not real wakeups > 2) because of that, showing them anyway would only be confusing for no reason > > If you have actual timer interrupts that happen, PowerTOP does report those > separately. > (as "Extra timer interrupt".. there've been a lot of questions about these > before) > > _______________________________________________ > Power mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.bughost.org/mailman/listinfo/power > _______________________________________________ Power mailing list [email protected] http://www.bughost.org/mailman/listinfo/power
