From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751500Ab0EHFZ4 (ORCPT ); Sat, 8 May 2010 01:25:56 -0400 Received: from crca.org.au ([74.207.252.120]:53784 "EHLO crca.org.au" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751178Ab0EHFZz (ORCPT ); Sat, 8 May 2010 01:25:55 -0400 X-Bogosity: Ham, spamicity=0.000000 Message-ID: <4BE4F5DF.70903@crca.org.au> Date: Sat, 08 May 2010 15:25:51 +1000 From: Nigel Cunningham User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.1.9) Gecko/20100423 Thunderbird/3.0.4 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: LKML Subject: 2.6.33 & 2.6.34-rc6: Huge number of Load Balancing tick wakeups. Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Hi all. 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 Regards, Nigel PowerTOP 1.12 (C) 2007, 2008 Intel Corporation Collecting data for 15 seconds Your CPU supports the following C-states : C1 C2 C3 C4 Your BIOS reports the following C-states : C1 C2 C4 Cn Avg residency C0 (cpu running) (40.8%) polling 0.7ms ( 0.1%) C1 mwait 0.0ms ( 0.0%) C2 mwait 0.1ms ( 3.2%) C4 mwait 0.4ms (56.0%) P-states (frequencies) Turbo Mode 7.3% 2.21 Ghz 0.7% 1.60 Ghz 0.8% 1200 Mhz 0.9% 800 Mhz 90.3% Wakeups-from-idle per second : 1727.3 interval: 15.0s no ACPI power usage estimate available Top causes for wakeups: 53.0% (1983.1) [kernel scheduler] Load balancing tick 27.7% (1035.1) vmware-vmx 8.8% (330.6) [extra timer interrupt] 2.3% ( 85.5) [TLB shootdowns] 1.6% ( 61.3) totem 1.2% ( 45.9) [Rescheduling interrupts] 1.1% ( 41.1) [iwl3945] 1.0% ( 36.2) firefox-bin 0.4% ( 16.2) [ata_piix] 0.3% ( 11.6) vmware 0.3% ( 11.3) pulseaudio 0.3% ( 11.1) vmware-unity-he 0.3% ( 10.7) skype 0.2% ( 8.0) [kernel core] usb_hcd_poll_rh_status (rh_timer_func) 0.1% ( 5.4) [hda_intel] 0.1% ( 5.3) gnome-do 0.1% ( 5.1) compiz 0.1% ( 4.1) python 0.1% ( 4.0) avant-window-na 0.1% ( 2.3) liferea 0.1% ( 2.1) vmware-tray 0.1% ( 2.1) thunderbird-bin 0.1% ( 2.0) mysqld 0.1% ( 2.0) emerald 0.1% ( 1.9) gnome-terminal 0.0% ( 1.3) [kernel core] sk_reset_timer (tcp_delack_timer) 0.0% ( 1.3) [ahci] 0.0% ( 1.2) cc1 0.0% ( 1.0) [nvidia] 0.0% ( 1.0) vmware-usbarbit 0.0% ( 1.0) vmnet-natd 0.0% ( 1.0) gvfs-afc-volume 0.0% ( 1.0) [kernel core] enqueue_task_rt (sched_rt_period_timer) 0.0% ( 1.0) [kernel module] HostIF_InitUptime (HostIFUptimeResyncMono) 0.0% ( 0.8) cli 0.0% ( 0.5) events/1 0.0% ( 0.5) events/0 0.0% ( 1.0) vmware-usbarbit 0.0% ( 1.0) vmnet-natd 0.0% ( 1.0) gvfs-afc-volume 0.0% ( 1.0) [kernel core] enqueue_task_rt (sched_rt_period_timer) 0.0% ( 1.0) [kernel module] HostIF_InitUptime (HostIFUptimeResyncMono) 0.0% ( 0.8) cli 0.0% ( 0.5) events/1 0.0% ( 0.5) events/0 0.0% ( 0.5) hald-addon-stor 0.0% ( 0.5) udisks-daemon 0.0% ( 0.3) tomboy 0.0% ( 0.3) awn-applet 0.0% ( 0.2) rtkit-daemon 0.0% ( 0.2) Thunar 0.0% ( 0.2) padevchooser 0.0% ( 0.2) xfdesktop 0.0% ( 0.1) gnome-power-man 0.0% ( 0.1) ssh-agent 0.0% ( 0.1) mono 0.0% ( 0.1) NetworkManager 0.0% ( 0.1) hald An audio device is active 100.0% of the time: hwC0D2 SigmaTel STAC9228 A USB device is active 0.0% of the time: USB device 2-2 : Biometric Coprocessor (STMicroelectronics) Suggestion: Enable SATA ALPM link power management via: echo min_power > /sys/class/scsi_host/host0/link_power_management_policy or press the S key. Suggestion: Enable wireless power saving mode by executing the following command: iwconfig wlan0 power timeout 500ms This will sacrifice network performance slightly to save power. Suggestion: Enable the CONFIG_USB_SUSPEND kernel configuration option. This option will automatically disable UHCI USB when not in use, and may save approximately 1 Watt of power. Recent USB suspend statistics Active Device name 0.0% USB device 5-2 : Generic RNDIS (HTC) 0.0% USB device 2-2 : Biometric Coprocessor (STMicroelectronics) 0.0% USB device 1-1 : Laptop Integrated Webcam (OmniVision Technologies, Inc. -2640-07.07.20.3) 0.0% USB device usb7 : UHCI Host Controller (Linux 2.6.34-rc6 uhci_hcd) 0.0% USB device usb6 : UHCI Host Controller (Linux 2.6.34-rc6 uhci_hcd) 0.0% USB device usb5 : UHCI Host Controller (Linux 2.6.34-rc6 uhci_hcd) 0.0% USB device usb4 : EHCI Host Controller (Linux 2.6.34-rc6 ehci_hcd) 0.0% USB device usb3 : UHCI Host Controller (Linux 2.6.34-rc6 uhci_hcd) 0.0% USB device usb2 : UHCI Host Controller (Linux 2.6.34-rc6 uhci_hcd) 0.0% USB device usb1 : EHCI Host Controller (Linux 2.6.34-rc6 ehci_hcd) Recent audio activity statistics Active Device name 100.0% hwC0D2 SigmaTel STAC9228 Recent SATA AHCI link activity statistics Active Partial Slumber Device name