Kazehakase waking up CPU too frequently
Arjan van de Ven
arjan at linux.intel.com
Sun Jun 3 11:13:34 PDT 2007
Frank Bauer wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I just installed powertop 1.5 on my Debian Etch laptop (+kernel 2.6.21) and found out
> that idle kazehakase is responsible for most wakeups (100 per second) on this box:
>
> 47,6% ( 99,8) kazehakase : do_nanosleep (hrtimer_wakeup)
>
> Would it be possible to optimize the idle behaviour to conserve some power?
>
I just tried kazehakase on my FC7 machine and it doesn't show this
behavior... so either mine is newer and it got fixed already, or yours
is newer and it got broken, or... yours is built very different....
Mine has version 0.4.7
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