Re: Machine no longer enters C3 on 2.6.11-rc1-bk

[Pavel Machek <pavel-AlSwsSmVLrQ@public.gmane.org>]

Hi!

>  > bus master activity: is changing all the time, mostly 555555555 and
>  > aaaaaaa, and cpu refuses to enter C3 for obvious reasons. I compiled
>  > out USB and sound... Does anybody else see the same problem?
>  > 
> 
> I did notice too that it was never in C3 apart from a bit right at the
> beginning, since 2.6.10.  It has always been like that up to 2.6.6, became
> better from 2.6.7 (but had other problems with that).
> 
> Fred
> 
> P.S.  I didn't check bus master activity.  How do you do that?

can you try to kill all bm_activity++ things in
drivers/acpi/processor.c and see what it does to your power
consumption. (Warning: it may do bad stuff to your performance).

								Pavel
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