On Wed, 3 Nov 2010, Thomas Renninger wrote:
> On Wednesday 03 November 2010 00:47:41 Auke Kok wrote:
>> On 11/02/10 07:40, Vitus Jensen wrote:
>>>
>>> Since some kernel versions I notice very high wakeup rates during idle ...
>>> while the reasons for the wakeup stay at reasonable low numbers.  In the
>>> 'powertop -d' output below it's 27463 wakeups/sec but the highest number
>>> for any reason is 48.  How do I find out what causes the wakeups?
> Sounds like C-states are not entered.
> or does:
> cat /proc/interrupts
> top
> show anything suspicious?
> This guy has a similar problem, but it may be another root cause:
> https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=12788
>
> ~40,000 wakeups/sec after suspend/resume with Tickless kernel; idle=nomwait 
> or max_cstate=1 helps
...

Yes, this looks very similar.  Except that it's always there and my system 
is only a uni-processor.  But removing CONFIG_NOHZ fixes the issue as 
reported in that bug.  ~150 wakeups, 12 W :-)


> You may want to open a new bug on https://bugzilla.kernel.org and assign
> it to the ACPI component.

I will.  And I will post a link to the other bug in id=12788.

Thanks,
   Vitus

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