From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752621Ab1HXQrQ (ORCPT ); Wed, 24 Aug 2011 12:47:16 -0400 Received: from mga02.intel.com ([134.134.136.20]:44231 "EHLO mga02.intel.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751486Ab1HXQrO (ORCPT ); Wed, 24 Aug 2011 12:47:14 -0400 X-ExtLoop1: 1 X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.67,351,1309762800"; d="scan'208";a="41459809" Message-ID: <4E552B01.7090109@linux.intel.com> Date: Wed, 24 Aug 2011 09:46:57 -0700 From: Arjan van de Ven User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:6.0) Gecko/20110812 Thunderbird/6.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Steevven1 CC: Anca Emanuel , Frederic Weisbecker , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Andrew Morton , Thomas Gleixner Subject: Re: Bug Report for Linux Kernel 3.x References: <20110824001137.GA23979@somewhere> <20110824135852.GE23979@somewhere> <4E5513FA.6060904@linux.intel.com> In-Reply-To: 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 On 8/24/2011 9:44 AM, Steevven1 wrote: > VERY interesting! The second link seems to imply that Phoronix has > independently found this same bug that we've been talking about in my > originally-linked ubuntuforums discussion. Specifically, the > interesting quote is: > > "Besides the new Linux 3.1 kernel power regression, there's also a > power regression introduced in the Linux 3.0 kernel that has > previously not been talked about on Phoronix. The Linux 3.0 power draw > is up by 24% over the Linux 2.6.39 kernel." sounds like good news; a 24% regression is MUCH easier to bisect than a 0.05% regression ;-)