Bug 667080

Summary: Huge power consumption on 8943-DKG Thinkpad R61i
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: Krzysztof "Uosiu" Hajdamowicz <uosiumen>
Component: kernelAssignee: Kernel Maintainer List <kernel-maint>
Status: CLOSED WONTFIX QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Priority: low    
Version: 14CC: gansalmon, itamar, jonathan, kernel-maint, madhu.chinakonda
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Simmilar bug found on Ubuntu Launchpad
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powertop with nozh=off none

Description Krzysztof "Uosiu" Hajdamowicz 2011-01-04 10:50:33 UTC
Description of problem:
My Laptop consumes 20W when idle on Core2Duo T5250 (2x1.5GHz). 77% of CPU Wakeups are caused by Load Balancing Tick in kernel scheduler.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
kernel-2.6.35.10-74.fc14.x86_64

How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Boot a machine
2. Check powertop
3.
  
Actual results:
My laptop is consuming 20W of power with minimum screen backlight, BT off, ide Wi-Fi, idle HDD etc. 2000 Wakeups per second are caused by Load Balancing Tick.
Previous kernels (before F14) allowed me to achieve 10.2W/h power consumption.

Expected results:
No more additional power consumption and CPU wakeups caused by kernel internals.

Additional info:

Comment 1 Krzysztof "Uosiu" Hajdamowicz 2011-01-04 10:51:42 UTC
Created attachment 471634 [details]
Simmilar bug found on Ubuntu Launchpad

Comment 2 Krzysztof "Uosiu" Hajdamowicz 2011-01-04 10:54:08 UTC
Created attachment 471635 [details]
powertop with nozh=off

Powertop console output when booted with nohz=off

Comment 3 Krzysztof "Uosiu" Hajdamowicz 2011-01-27 08:36:07 UTC
Energy economy was better when I've booted Fedora 14 with kernel kernel-2.6.34.7-66.fc13.x86_64 from Fedora 13. There was Load Balancing tick too, but it used less CPU wakeups. Problematic is a fact, that with kernel mentioned above LCD backlight can't turn on when laptop wakes up from suspend to RAM.

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