*Huge* amount of wakeups

[Jan Willies]

Andreas Mohr wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 02, 2007 at 01:16:11PM +0200, Jan Willies wrote:
>> hirakendu das wrote:
>>> Btw, Is your cpu dual core? If so, does disabling smp work ? Do you also 
>>> get the "tsc marked unstable" message in kernel log ?
>> It's a single core, AMD Turion(tm) 64 Mobile Technology ML-30.
>>
>> Time: tsc clocksource has been installed.
>> Marking TSC unstable due to: cpufreq changes.
>> Clocksource tsc unstable (delta = -108470834 ns)
> 
> Oh, right, just a random shot:
> 
> Doing
> cat /sys/devices/system/clocksource/clocksource*/*
> (and fiddling with those settings) might perhaps influence ACPI idle state
> behaviour? This would hint at more kernel work to be done then...

available_clocksource: acpi_pm pit jiffies tsc
current_clocksource: acpi_pm

I tried echo pit > current_clocksource but that completely freezes the 
laptop. Sorry for being a noob but can you give me some hints what to 
try specifically?


- Jan