uhci_hcd worst, followed by fglrx

Adam Jackson ajackson at redhat.com
Tue May 15 10:28:50 PDT 2007


On Tue, 2007-05-15 at 17:20 +0100, Ricardo Martins wrote:
> On Tue, 15 May 2007 16:52, Peter Robinson wrote:
> > > uhci_hcd is responsible for the most wake-ups for me with a constant 100
> > > wake-ups/second, second is fglrx with a constant 60 wake-ups/second. Power
> > > state doesn't matter for fglrx, and like I said these values seem very
> > > constant.
> > > Kernel is 2.6.21-gentoo with powertop patches applied cleanly. When
> > > activated firewire and pcmcia were also quite active.
> > 
> >  I believe the kernel guys are working on fixing the USB problems. The
> >  fglrx is a binary only driver from ATI so either ATI needs to fix that
> >  driver or you need to move to the Open Source radeon driver.
> 
> The Open Source radeon driver has the same behaviour -- 60 wake-ups per
> second.

Probably the same bug as the intel vblank bug.

- ajax




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