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From: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
To: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@sisk.pl>
Cc: Dirk Brandewie <dirk.brandewie@gmail.com>,
	Michael Karcher <Michael.Karcher@fu-berlin.de>,
	linux-pm@vger.kernel.org, Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
Subject: Re: power management regression in linux 3.10?
Date: Tue, 4 Jun 2013 16:19:54 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20130604141952.GI14973@somewhere> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <2330824.Xqf4iUAbIP@vostro.rjw.lan>

On Mon, Jun 03, 2013 at 10:04:30PM +0200, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
> On Monday, June 03, 2013 12:37:21 PM Dirk Brandewie wrote:
> > On 06/03/2013 12:34 PM, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
> > > On Monday, June 03, 2013 07:56:15 PM Michael Karcher wrote:
> > >> Hello,
> > >>
> > >> I am using an IBM ThinkPad T60 (i915, Core 2 Duo T7200) and recently
> > >> upgraded from a custom 3.7 kernel to a custom 3.10-rc4 kernel
> > >> (v3.10-rc4-1-gc026d8e).
> > >> After upgrading, I get around 17-20W power usage instead of 12-15W power
> > >> usage as I had with 3.7. powertop show that CPU0 is in state POLL all of
> > >> the idle time, while CPU1 correctly enters C3.

With CONFIG_NO_HZ_FULL it is expected that CPU 0 consumes more power because
it handles the timekeeping for every other CPUs and so it never stop its tick.
Paul McKenney is working on a solution to solve that.

But if you see something similar on the other CPUs it's a bug.

Thanks.

  reply	other threads:[~2013-06-04 14:19 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-06-03 17:56 power management regression in linux 3.10? Michael Karcher
2013-06-03 19:34 ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2013-06-03 19:37   ` Dirk Brandewie
2013-06-03 20:04     ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2013-06-04 14:19       ` Frederic Weisbecker [this message]
2013-06-04  1:08     ` Michael Karcher
2013-06-04 11:30       ` power management regression in linux 3.10? (related to CONFIG_NO_HZ_FULL) Rafael J. Wysocki

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