Re: is it a timer bug?

From: Arjan van de Ven
Date: Mon Dec 15 2008 - 03:29:52 EST


On Mon, 15 Dec 2008 16:19:37 +0800
"Shi, Alex" <alex.shi@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> OK, but my machine is not a production machine.
> A, 2.6.28-rc8 with tickles and highres
> PowerTOP version 1.9 (C) 2007 Intel Corporation
>
> Cn Avg residency P-states (frequencies)
> C0 (cpu running) (65.1%)
> C1 0.0ms ( 0.0%)
> C2 105.8ms (34.9%)
>
>
>
> Wakeups-from-idle per second : 3.8 interval: 5.0s
> no ACPI power usage estimate available
> B, 2.6.28-rc8 with tickless only
> PowerTOP version 1.9 (C) 2007 Intel Corporation
>
> Cn Avg residency P-states (frequencies)
> C0 (cpu running) (14.0%)
> C1 0.0ms ( 0.0%)
> C2 3.4ms (86.0%)
>
>
>
> Wakeups-from-idle per second : 255.6 interval: 5.0s
> no ACPI power usage estimate available
>
> Top causes for wakeups:
> 87.9% (267.6) <interrupt> : extra timer interrupt

unfortunately you don't give more than the first line ;-(



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