At Thu, 04 Feb 2010 07:25:03 -0800,
Arjan van de Ven wrote:
> 
> >
> > I am sorry, are you trying to convince me that my problem is not real?
> > You can compare to my completely idle system (I even closed the
> > browser but with these residency values it doesn't really matter
> > anymore in terms of power saving):
> >
> > Cn            Avg residency
> > C0 (cpu running)        ( 4.7%)
> > C0            0.1ms ( 0.0%)
> > C1 mwait      0.0ms ( 0.0%)
> > C2 mwait      0.1ms ( 0.5%)
> > C6 mwait      2.9ms (94.8%)
> > P-states (frequencies)
> >    2.41 Ghz     2.3%
> >    2.40 Ghz     0.4%
> >    1.60 Ghz     0.9%
> >     800 Mhz    96.5%
> > Wakeups-from-idle per second : 369.8        interval: 15.0s
> > Power usage (ACPI estimate): 12.2W (3.0 hours)
> > Top causes for wakeups:
> >    73.0% (363.4)<kernel IPI>  : Rescheduling interrupts
> >     9.2% ( 45.7)<interrupt>  : extra timer interrupt
> >     6.1% ( 30.3)<interrupt>  : iwlagn
> >     4.0% ( 19.8)<interrupt>  : acpi
> >     2.1% ( 10.5)           gkrellm : schedule_hrtimeout_range 
> > (hrtimer_wakeup)
> >     2.0% ( 10.1)             xfwm4 : schedule_hrtimeout_range 
> > (hrtimer_wakeup)
> >
> 
> 
> so one of the things of this rescheduling interrupt is that it is sort of a 
> side effect of other wakeups/code running.
> I bet that if you, say, stop gkrellm, you'll see it go down proportionally 
> ....

Not really.  As I wrote in the first mail, it's all ok until I run any
X processes (running just GDM is fine).

Cn                Avg residency
C0 (cpu running)        ( 2.3%)
C0                0.1ms ( 0.0%)
C1 mwait          0.0ms ( 0.0%)
C2 mwait          0.1ms ( 0.2%)
C6 mwait          5.6ms (97.5%)
P-states (frequencies)
  2.41 Ghz     3.4%
  2.40 Ghz     0.0%
  1.60 Ghz     4.0%
   800 Mhz    92.7%
Wakeups-from-idle per second : 195.6    interval: 15.0s
Power usage (ACPI estimate): 12.2W (2.9 hours) 
Top causes for wakeups:
  76.6% (242.6)      <kernel IPI> : Rescheduling interrupts 
   9.3% ( 29.5)       <interrupt> : iwlagn 
   5.9% ( 18.7)       <interrupt> : acpi 
   2.0% (  6.3)       <interrupt> : extra timer interrupt 
   1.3% (  4.2)       <interrupt> : i...@pci:0000:00:02.0 


And here with networking turned off:

Cn                Avg residency
C0 (cpu running)        ( 2.3%)
C0                0.0ms ( 0.0%)
C1 mwait          0.0ms ( 0.0%)
C2 mwait          0.1ms ( 0.2%)
C6 mwait          5.9ms (97.5%)
P-states (frequencies)
  2.41 Ghz     4.3%
  2.40 Ghz     3.2%
  1.60 Ghz     4.3%
   800 Mhz    88.1%
Wakeups-from-idle per second : 189.1    interval: 15.0s
Power usage (ACPI estimate): 11.1W (3.2 hours) 
Top causes for wakeups:
  82.9% (254.8)      <kernel IPI> : Rescheduling interrupts 
   7.2% ( 22.0)       <interrupt> : acpi 
   2.7% (  8.3)       <interrupt> : extra timer interrupt 
   1.1% (  3.3)       <interrupt> : i...@pci:0000:00:02.0 
   0.7% (  2.3)       <interrupt> : ahci 
   0.7% (  2.0)       xfce4-hdaps : schedule_hrtimeout_range (hrtimer_wakeup) 

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