Bug 436018 - huge number of wakeups
Summary: huge number of wakeups
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Status: CLOSED WONTFIX
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: kernel
Version: 9
Hardware: x86_64
OS: Linux
low
low
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Assignee: Peter Zijlstra
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2008-03-04 21:19 UTC by Ulrich Drepper
Modified: 2014-08-11 05:40 UTC (History)
5 users (show)

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Last Closed: 2009-07-14 16:12:41 UTC
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Description Ulrich Drepper 2008-03-04 21:19:08 UTC
Description of problem:
The supposedly tickless rawhide x86-64 kernel is much worse than the F8 kernel.
 I'm now up to around 140 wkaeups per second on an idle machine.  Powertop shows:

~50%  <kernel API> : Rescheduling interrupts
~13%  <interrupt> : iwl4965
~8%   group_balance : schedule_timeout (process_timedout)
~8%   at-spi-registry : schedule_timeout (process_timedout)
~5%   <interrupt> : extra timer interrupt

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
kernel-2.6.25-0.87.rc3.git4.fc9.x86_64

How reproducible:
always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.start that kernel on X61 laptop
2.run powertop
3.
  
Actual results:
above numbers

Expected results:
< 20 (< 10 ?) wakeups per second.  Well, maybe the wifi adds more.

Additional info:

Comment 1 Adrien Bustany 2008-03-06 17:20:29 UTC
Same for me, "rescheduling interrupts" is 50% of wakeups on a sony sz61mn/b,
kernel-2.6.25-0.93.rc4.fc9.x86_64


Comment 2 Stephen So 2008-03-15 14:32:04 UTC
This problem of "rescheduling interrupts" is also occurring in
kernel-2.6.24.3-12.fc8.i686



Comment 3 Dave Jones 2008-04-14 17:23:21 UTC
I spoke with Arjan about this a few days ago. His hypothesis was that something
changed in the scheduler which is causing us to rebalance tasks too often.
Peter, any ideas ?

Comment 4 Andrew Hecox 2008-05-12 17:03:57 UTC
did this get anywhere? 

observing under 25-14.fc9.x86_64, on an T61, playing audio but nothing else,
rescheduling interrupts range cause 170-200 (50-65%) wakeups.

Comment 5 Andrew Hecox 2008-05-12 17:40:23 UTC
fwiw, the case is the same if I boot with noirqbalance and acpi_irq_nobalance.
Before rhythbox is loaded, the IRQ rebalancing is happening, but very
infrequently (<20/s) but once loaded, that moves to ~200/s. rhythmbox itself is
causing <40/s while music is playing.

happy to test if needed.


Comment 6 Bug Zapper 2008-05-14 05:46:40 UTC
Changing version to '9' as part of upcoming Fedora 9 GA.
More information and reason for this action is here:
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/BugZappers/HouseKeeping

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Comment 8 Bug Zapper 2009-07-14 16:12:41 UTC
Fedora 9 changed to end-of-life (EOL) status on 2009-07-10. Fedora 9 is 
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