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From: Len Brown <lenb@kernel.org>
To: Thomas Meyer <thomas@m3y3r.de>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: ACPI: EC: evaluating _Q10
Date: Tue, 2 Jan 2007 22:41:05 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200701022241.05303.lenb@kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <459AC146.9020804@m3y3r.de>

> > The bigger question is why you get "tons of these" --
> > as EC  events are usually infrequent.
> > Do you have a big number next to "acpi" in /proc/interrupts?
> > If so, at what rate is it growing?
> 
> maybe tons were a bit to overstated... After a fresh reboot, i count 110 
> _q10 and one _q21messages now with 8 min. uptime and around 10300 acpi 
> interrupts.

480 sec/110 ec events = 4 seconds/event.  This doesn't worry me.
Could be battery updates, thermal updates etc.

480/10300 = an interrupt every 46 ms.
This is certainly not right.
Have you always seen runaway acpi interrupts on this box, no matter the kernel?

thanks,
-Len


  reply	other threads:[~2007-01-03  3:41 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <45992109.9050009@m3y3r.de>
2007-01-02 17:05 ` ACPI: EC: evaluating _Q10 Len Brown
2007-01-02 20:32   ` Thomas Meyer
2007-01-03  3:41     ` Len Brown [this message]
2007-01-03  7:46       ` Thomas Meyer

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