RE: 2.6.25 regression: powertop says 120K wakeups/sec

From: Pallipadi, Venkatesh
Date: Fri Mar 28 2008 - 15:19:33 EST


>-----Original Message-----
>From: David Brownell [mailto:david-b@xxxxxxxxxxx]
>Sent: Friday, March 28, 2008 12:02 PM
>To: Andrew Morton; Pallipadi, Venkatesh
>Cc: linux-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx; Rafael J. Wysocki;
>linux-acpi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>Subject: Re: 2.6.25 regression: powertop says 120K wakeups/sec
>
>On Saturday 22 March 2008, Andrew Morton wrote:
>> On Sat, 22 Mar 2008 13:24:54 -0700 David Brownell
><david-b@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>> > I noticed this with 2.6.25-rc2 (if not before), and the problem
>> > is still there with 2.6.25-rc6-git (as of this AM).
>
>A 2.6.24 kernel I still had stashed away didn't act odd; the
>problem joined us before 2.6.25-rc1 was tagged.
>

There was a fix that went in recently (one or two days back) that should
have fixed this.
Commit 8e92b6605da989

Can you check with latest git to see whether this is still a problem?

Thanks,
Venki
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