On 2018.03.17 Thomas Ilsche wrote: > Over the last week I tested v4+pollv2 and now v5+pollv3. With v5, I > observe a particular idle behavior, that I have not seen before with > v4. On a dual-socket Skylake system the idle power increases from > 74.1 W (system total) to 85.5 W with a 300 HZ build and even to > 138.3 W with a 1000 HZ build. A similar Haswell-EP system is also > affected.
I confirm your idle findings. There is a regression between V4 and V5. The differences on my test computer are much less than on yours, probably because I have only 8 CPUs. http://fast.smythies.com/rjw_idle.png 1000 Hz kernel only. ... Doug
