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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