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From: "Prakash K. Cheemplavam" <PrakashKC@gmx.de>
To: Thomas Schlichter <thomas.schlichter@web.de>
Cc: ross@datscreative.com.au,
	"Maciej W. Rozycki" <macro@ds2.pg.gda.pl>,
	len.brown@intel.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: idle Athlon with IOAPIC is 10C warmer since 2.6.3-bk1
Date: Fri, 19 Mar 2004 20:22:59 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <405B4893.70701@gmx.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200403191955.38059.thomas.schlichter@web.de>

 > OK, now I had the time to test if different C states are working with
 > following three kernels:
 >
 > 1. 2.6.4-mm2 without the 8259-timer-ack-fix.patch and without the 
C1halt idle
 > function.
 > 2. 2.6.4-mm2 with the 8259-timer-ack-fix.patch and without the C1 
halt idle
 > function enabled.
 > 3. 2.6.4-mm2 with the 8259-timer-ack-fix.patch and with the C1 halt idle
 > function enabled.
 >
 > I used following script to print the C-state counters on an complete 
idle
 > machine before and after a 10second interval:
 >
 > # /bin/sh
 > cat /proc/acpi/processor/CPU0/power
 > sleep 10
 > cat /proc/acpi/processor/CPU0/power
 >
 > Now the results:

[snip]

> 3.:
> active state:            C1
> default state:           C1
> bus master activity:     00000000
> states:
>    *C1:                  promotion[C2] demotion[--] latency[000] 
> usage[00000000]
>     C2:                  promotion[--] demotion[C1] latency[100] 
> usage[00000000]
>     C3:                  <not supported>
> active state:            C1
> default state:           C1
> bus master activity:     00000000
> states:
>    *C1:                  promotion[C2] demotion[--] latency[000] 
> usage[00000000]
>     C2:                  promotion[--] demotion[C1] latency[100] 
> usage[00000000]
>     C3:                  <not supported>
> 
> So, as you can see, the C1halt patch does not help here... ;-(

Hmm, I just did a cat /proc/acpi/processor/CPU0/power:
active state:            C1
default state:           C1
bus master activity:     00000000
states:
    *C1:                  promotion[--] demotion[--] latency[000] 
usage[00000000]
     C2:                  <not supported>
     C3:                  <not supported>

I am currently NOT using APIC mode (nforce2, as well) and using vanilla 
2.6.4. It seems C1 halt state isn't used, which exlains why I am having 
trouble to keep my CPU cooler these day. I once started a thread 
suspecting acpi timer, but it is not the case. It seems to be something 
else. As I don't use PIC, it cannot be that  8259-timer-ack-fix.patch 
causin git, or can it? Maybe something broken in ACPI? I might try out 
older kernels to find out...

Prakash

  reply	other threads:[~2004-03-19 19:23 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-03-18  0:19 idle Athlon with IOAPIC is 10C warmer since 2.6.3-bk1 Ross Dickson
2004-03-18  1:02 ` Craig Bradney
2004-03-18 11:41 ` Bernd Schubert
2004-03-18 11:55   ` Ross Dickson
2004-03-19 18:55 ` Thomas Schlichter
2004-03-19 19:22   ` Prakash K. Cheemplavam [this message]
2004-03-19 23:20     ` Len Brown
2004-03-20  9:29       ` Prakash K. Cheemplavam
2004-03-20 10:19         ` Ross Dickson
2004-03-20 10:25           ` Prakash K. Cheemplavam
2004-03-20 10:50             ` Ross Dickson
2004-03-29 19:59             ` Prakash K. Cheemplavam
2004-03-30  0:57               ` Ross Dickson
2004-03-30  9:30                 ` Prakash K. Cheemplavam
2004-03-20 13:07       ` Daniel Egger
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2004-03-17 21:26 Thomas Schlichter
     [not found] <A6974D8E5F98D511BB910002A50A6647615F571D@hdsmsx402.hd.intel.com>
2004-03-17 15:53 ` Len Brown
     [not found] <200403032119.58817.thomas.schlichter@web.de>
2004-03-17 15:29 ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2004-03-04 12:47 Thomas Schlichter

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