From: Dominik Brodowski <linux@dominikbrodowski.net>
To: Nigel Cunningham <ncunningham@crca.org.au>,
Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com>
Cc: Len Brown <lenb@kernel.org>,
Linux Power Management List <linux-pm@lists.osdl.org>,
LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [linux-pm] 2.6.33 & 2.6.34-rc6: Huge number of Load Balancing tick wakeups.
Date: Sun, 9 May 2010 11:11:51 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100509091151.GA24453@isilmar-3.linta.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4BE5F3B2.6070901@crca.org.au>
Hey,
On Sun, May 09, 2010 at 09:28:50AM +1000, Nigel Cunningham wrote:
> On 09/05/10 05:16, Len Brown wrote:
> > (linux-pm cc'd)
> >
> >> I'm seeing a huge number of load balancing tick wakeups, with both 2.6.33 and
> >> current git (f1c448e0a9e99c76f4ece368714fb35a40a8daba).
> >>
> >> This has been reported as a bug in some distros:
> >>
> >> http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=521944
> >> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/524281
> >
> > Unclear if your sighting is the same as those two.
> >
> > What do you see if vmware is not present?
>
> I still see a huge number, just not as huge. The number of load
> balancing ticks seems to increase with the number of ticks from other
> sources. Without vmware running I got:
>
> Cn Avg residency
> C0 (cpu running) (14.5%)
> polling 0.2ms ( 0.0%)
> C1 mwait 0.0ms ( 0.0%)
> C2 mwait 0.1ms ( 1.7%)
> C4 mwait 1.1ms (83.8%)
> P-states (frequencies)
> Turbo Mode 1.2%
> 2.21 Ghz 0.0%
> 1.60 Ghz 0.0%
> 1200 Mhz 0.1%
> 800 Mhz 98.7%
> Wakeups-from-idle per second : 907.4 interval: 15.0s
> no ACPI power usage estimate available
> Top causes for wakeups:
> 42.1% (435.6) [kernel scheduler] Load balancing tick
> 21.2% (219.6) [extra timer interrupt]
> 10.2% (105.6) plugin-containe
> 9.5% ( 98.1) pulseaudio
> 1.7% ( 17.9) [Rescheduling interrupts] <kernel IPI>
> 1.7% ( 17.1) [iwl3945] <interrupt>
> 1.4% ( 14.8) [kernel core] hrtimer_start (tick_sched_timer)
> 1.4% ( 14.3) [ata_piix] <interrupt>
Seems to be exactly what I'm seeing here, too. See my description and
possible patch at
http://lkml.org/lkml/2010/4/26/249
Suresh Siddha reported he's working on getting some (more advanced) patches
ready for submission.
Best,
Dominik
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2010-05-08 19:16 ` 2.6.33 & 2.6.34-rc6: Huge number of Load Balancing tick wakeups Len Brown
2010-05-08 23:28 ` Nigel Cunningham
2010-05-09 9:11 ` Dominik Brodowski [this message]
2010-05-09 23:48 ` Nigel Cunningham
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