Re: Increased ipw2200 power usage with dynticks

2007-05-23 Thread Andi Kleen
> The current idea is that we will have multiple governors changeable at run > time only for > DEBUG and DEVELOPMENT. On a standard end user system there will be one > governor > (current optimal governor) that will be loaded. This gives > flexibality to experiments with governors and also

Re: Increased ipw2200 power usage with dynticks

2007-05-23 Thread Andi Kleen
The current idea is that we will have multiple governors changeable at run time only for DEBUG and DEVELOPMENT. On a standard end user system there will be one governor (current optimal governor) that will be loaded. This gives flexibality to experiments with governors and also easily have

RE: Increased ipw2200 power usage with dynticks

2007-05-22 Thread Pallipadi, Venkatesh
IL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Subject: Re: Increased ipw2200 power usage with dynticks > >> >> Nice to hear that cpuidle-menu governor gets 13.9W :-). >> Powertop will need some changes to go with cpuidle, but that >should be simple. >> >> We need some mor

Re: Increased ipw2200 power usage with dynticks

2007-05-22 Thread Bill Davidsen
Björn Steinbrink wrote: On 2007.05.20 20:55:35 +0200, Andi Kleen wrote: Björn Steinbrink <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Ok, it seems that ipw2200 is just a trigger for the problem here. AFAICT the cause of the worse C state usage is that after ipw2200 has woken the cpu, acpi_processor_idle()

Re: Increased ipw2200 power usage with dynticks

2007-05-22 Thread Andi Kleen
> > Nice to hear that cpuidle-menu governor gets 13.9W :-). > Powertop will need some changes to go with cpuidle, but that should be simple. > > We need some more testing for cpuidle before it gets into git. > Len: Looks like cpuidle got dropped out of mm again. Can you merge it back it >

Re: Increased ipw2200 power usage with dynticks

2007-05-22 Thread Bill Davidsen
Björn Steinbrink wrote: On 2007.05.20 20:55:35 +0200, Andi Kleen wrote: Björn Steinbrink [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Ok, it seems that ipw2200 is just a trigger for the problem here. AFAICT the cause of the worse C state usage is that after ipw2200 has woken the cpu, acpi_processor_idle()

RE: Increased ipw2200 power usage with dynticks

2007-05-22 Thread Pallipadi, Venkatesh
] Subject: Re: Increased ipw2200 power usage with dynticks Nice to hear that cpuidle-menu governor gets 13.9W :-). Powertop will need some changes to go with cpuidle, but that should be simple. We need some more testing for cpuidle before it gets into git. Len: Looks like cpuidle got dropped

Re: Increased ipw2200 power usage with dynticks

2007-05-22 Thread Andi Kleen
Nice to hear that cpuidle-menu governor gets 13.9W :-). Powertop will need some changes to go with cpuidle, but that should be simple. We need some more testing for cpuidle before it gets into git. Len: Looks like cpuidle got dropped out of mm again. Can you merge it back it please. It

RE: Increased ipw2200 power usage with dynticks

2007-05-21 Thread Pallipadi, Venkatesh
OTECTED] >Subject: Re: Increased ipw2200 power usage with dynticks > >On 2007.05.20 20:55:35 +0200, Andi Kleen wrote: >> Björn Steinbrink <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> > >> > Ok, it seems that ipw2200 is just a trigger for the >problem here. AFAICT >> >

Re: Increased ipw2200 power usage with dynticks

2007-05-21 Thread Björn Steinbrink
On 2007.05.20 20:55:35 +0200, Andi Kleen wrote: > Björn Steinbrink <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > Ok, it seems that ipw2200 is just a trigger for the problem here. AFAICT > > the cause of the worse C state usage is that after ipw2200 has woken the > > cpu, acpi_processor_idle() chooses C2

Re: Increased ipw2200 power usage with dynticks

2007-05-21 Thread Björn Steinbrink
On 2007.05.20 20:55:35 +0200, Andi Kleen wrote: Björn Steinbrink [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Ok, it seems that ipw2200 is just a trigger for the problem here. AFAICT the cause of the worse C state usage is that after ipw2200 has woken the cpu, acpi_processor_idle() chooses C2 (due to dma?

RE: Increased ipw2200 power usage with dynticks

2007-05-21 Thread Pallipadi, Venkatesh
ipw2200 power usage with dynticks On 2007.05.20 20:55:35 +0200, Andi Kleen wrote: Björn Steinbrink [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Ok, it seems that ipw2200 is just a trigger for the problem here. AFAICT the cause of the worse C state usage is that after ipw2200 has woken the cpu

Re: Increased ipw2200 power usage with dynticks

2007-05-20 Thread Andi Kleen
Björn Steinbrink <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Ok, it seems that ipw2200 is just a trigger for the problem here. AFAICT > the cause of the worse C state usage is that after ipw2200 has woken the > cpu, acpi_processor_idle() chooses C2 (due to dma? bm? I have no > idea...) as the prefered sleep

Re: Increased ipw2200 power usage with dynticks

2007-05-20 Thread Andi Kleen
Björn Steinbrink [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Ok, it seems that ipw2200 is just a trigger for the problem here. AFAICT the cause of the worse C state usage is that after ipw2200 has woken the cpu, acpi_processor_idle() chooses C2 (due to dma? bm? I have no idea...) as the prefered sleep state.

Re: Increased ipw2200 power usage with dynticks

2007-05-19 Thread Björn Steinbrink
On 2007.05.18 17:46:29 +0200, Björn Steinbrink wrote: > Hi, > > while playing around with powertop, I noticed that my power usage wasn't > what it used to be. In total idle mode, everything was fine, but as soon > as I loaded the ipw2200 module and bring up the device, power usage > rises to

Re: Increased ipw2200 power usage with dynticks

2007-05-19 Thread Björn Steinbrink
On 2007.05.18 17:46:29 +0200, Björn Steinbrink wrote: Hi, while playing around with powertop, I noticed that my power usage wasn't what it used to be. In total idle mode, everything was fine, but as soon as I loaded the ipw2200 module and bring up the device, power usage rises to about

Increased ipw2200 power usage with dynticks

2007-05-18 Thread Björn Steinbrink
Hi, while playing around with powertop, I noticed that my power usage wasn't what it used to be. In total idle mode, everything was fine, but as soon as I loaded the ipw2200 module and bring up the device, power usage rises to about 16.8W, while kernel up to 2.6.20 used only about 15.3W. A day

Increased ipw2200 power usage with dynticks

2007-05-18 Thread Björn Steinbrink
Hi, while playing around with powertop, I noticed that my power usage wasn't what it used to be. In total idle mode, everything was fine, but as soon as I loaded the ipw2200 module and bring up the device, power usage rises to about 16.8W, while kernel up to 2.6.20 used only about 15.3W. A day