From: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
To: "Vegard Nossum" <vegard.nossum@gmail.com>
Cc: "Ingo Molnar" <mingo@elte.hu>,
"Peter Zijlstra" <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>,
"Linux Kernel Mailing List" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: v2.6.26-rc7: Negative powertop values
Date: Sat, 21 Jun 2008 14:16:15 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080621141615.51f7100c@linux.intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <19f34abd0806211216y4695c532ndb4935082bd8ea1@mail.gmail.com>
On Sat, 21 Jun 2008 21:16:37 +0200
"Vegard Nossum" <vegard.nossum@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I was testing v2.6.26-rc7 by running lmbench and hotplug/-unplugging
> CPUs and a few other programs at the same time. Powertop was showing a
> negative number of wakeups/second and average C3 residency was
> something really insane. Is there anything strange with this schedstat
> file, or is there another file I should look at that can explain the
> strange powertop numbers? Or maybe it's just an artifact of powertop
> and this has nothing to do with the kernel?
powertop doesn't assume you do cpu hotunplug (and the internal state
goes wacky if you do).
[I assume you know that doing a software unplug you burn more power
than by leaving the cpu idle]
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-06-21 21:16 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-06-21 19:16 v2.6.26-rc7: Negative powertop values Vegard Nossum
2008-06-21 21:16 ` Arjan van de Ven [this message]
2008-06-21 21:22 ` Vegard Nossum
2008-07-06 19:48 ` Pavel Machek
2008-07-08 13:52 ` Arjan van de Ven
2008-07-13 11:58 ` Pavel Machek
2008-07-13 15:35 ` Arjan van de Ven
2008-07-14 6:26 ` Pavel Machek
2008-07-13 15:37 ` Arjan van de Ven
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