<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 8/14/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Arjan van de Ven</b> <<a href="mailto:arjan@infradead.org">arjan@infradead.org</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<br>On Tue, 2007-08-14 at 10:39 +0200, dragoran wrote:<br>> On my laptop (core2duo based) S06cpuspeed causes 100 wakeups/sec .<br>> Seems like its already noted here:<br>> <a href="http://linuxpowertop.org/known.php#ondemand">
http://linuxpowertop.org/known.php#ondemand</a><br>> "Intel fixed this and the patches to the kernel to effectively remove<br>> this timer are included in Linus' tree as of 2.6.22-rc1." I am running<br>
> 2.6.22.1-41.fc7 which should already have this changes but it seems the<br>> problem isn't solved yet.<br><br>the problem is solved; the reporting is not. 2.6.23-rc also reports the<br>timers as "deferred" so that powertop can skip them (and version
1.8<br>will do just that).</blockquote><div><br>ok <br></div><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">If you see many wakups from this then you have even more other ones..
<br>since ondemand wakeups only happen now if something else wakes the cpu<br>up anyway.</blockquote><div><br>I am on x86_64 (non tickless yet) so that explains it. <br></div><br></div><br>