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Machine no longer enters C3 on 2.6.11-rc1-bk

DISCUSSION Pavel Machek 5 participants 8 messages Jan 20, 2005 – Jan 21, 2005 3 messages not in the archive ACPI

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#0 lore raw

Hi!

bus master activity: is changing all the time, mostly 555555555 and aaaaaaa, and cpu refuses to enter C3 for obvious reasons. I compiled out USB and sound... Does anybody else see the same problem?

Pavel

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Quoted 6 lines · Pavel Machek

Hi!

bus master activity: is changing all the time, mostly 555555555 and aaaaaaa, and cpu refuses to enter C3 for obvious reasons. I compiled out USB and sound... Does anybody else see the same problem?

I did notice too that it was never in C3 apart from a bit right at the beginning, since 2.6.10. It has always been like that up to 2.6.6, became better from 2.6.7 (but had other problems with that).

Fred

P.S. I didn't check bus master activity. How do you do that?

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#2 lore raw

Hi!

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bus master activity: is changing all the time, mostly 555555555 and aaaaaaa, and cpu refuses to enter C3 for obvious reasons. I compiled out USB and sound... Does anybody else see the same problem?

I did notice too that it was never in C3 apart from a bit right at the beginning, since 2.6.10. It has always been like that up to 2.6.6, became better from 2.6.7 (but had other problems with that).

Good, so I'm not alone.

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P.S. I didn't check bus master activity. How do you do that?

cat /proc/acpi/processor/*/power

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Quoted 8 lines · Pavel Machek

Hi!

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bus master activity: is changing all the time, mostly 555555555 and aaaaaaa, and cpu refuses to enter C3 for obvious reasons. I compiled out USB and sound... Does anybody else see the same problem?

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I did notice too that it was never in C3 apart from a bit right at the beginning, since 2.6.10. It has always been like that up to 2.6.6, became better from 2.6.7 (but had other problems with that).

Good, so I'm not alone.

I see the same thing. Furthermore, my CPU never appears to enter C1 either (except at the beginning). Is this aspect of the behaviour normal?

By the way, the bus master activity always appears as ffffffff.

cheers,

Rich

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Quoted 15 lines · Rich Townsend
Quoted 13 lines · Pavel Machek

Hi!

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bus master activity: is changing all the time, mostly 555555555 and aaaaaaa, and cpu refuses to enter C3 for obvious reasons. I compiled out USB and sound... Does anybody else see the same problem?

I did notice too that it was never in C3 apart from a bit right at the beginning, since 2.6.10. It has always been like that up to 2.6.6, became better from 2.6.7 (but had other problems with that).

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Good, so I'm not alone.

I see the same thing. Furthermore, my CPU never appears to enter C1 either (except at the beginning). Is this aspect of the behaviour normal?

By the way, the bus master activity always appears as ffffffff.

Gak, I just read the wiki, and USB was the culprit. But that doesn't explain why I'm not seeing any transitions to C1, even under full load.

cheers,

Rich

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Quoted 2 lines · Rich Townsend

Gak, I just read the wiki, and USB was the culprit. But that doesn't explain why I'm not seeing any transitions to C1, even under full load.

This is normal for the current code -- we run C1 16 times and promote, but if C2 latency is very low, we never demote to C1:

[root@d600 root]# cat /proc/acpi/processor/CPU0/power

active state:            C4
max_cstate:              C8
bus master activity:     00000000

states:
C1: type[C1] promotion[C2] demotion[--] latency[001] usage[00000010]
C2: type[C2] promotion[C3] demotion[C1] latency[001] usage[00266192]
C3: type[C3] promotion[C4] demotion[C2] latency[085] usage[00028664]
*C4: type[C3] promotion[--] demotion[C3] latency[185] usage[00359811]

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#9 lore raw
In reply to Fred Labrosse

Hi!

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bus master activity: is changing all the time, mostly 555555555 and aaaaaaa, and cpu refuses to enter C3 for obvious reasons. I compiled out USB and sound... Does anybody else see the same problem?

I did notice too that it was never in C3 apart from a bit right at the beginning, since 2.6.10. It has always been like that up to 2.6.6, became better from 2.6.7 (but had other problems with that).

P.S. I didn't check bus master activity. How do you do that?

There's something wrong with bus master activity indicator: it seems to be updated every HZ or something like that... that results in a bad stuff if HZ=100... activiy is now non-zero and machine refuses to go C3.
Pavel

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#10 lore raw
In reply to Fred Labrosse

Hi!

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bus master activity: is changing all the time, mostly 555555555 and aaaaaaa, and cpu refuses to enter C3 for obvious reasons. I compiled out USB and sound... Does anybody else see the same problem?

Quoted 7 lines

I did notice too that it was never in C3 apart from a bit right at the beginning, since 2.6.10. It has always been like that up to 2.6.6, became better from 2.6.7 (but had other problems with that).

Fred

P.S. I didn't check bus master activity. How do you do that?

can you try to kill all bm_activity++ things in drivers/acpi/processor.c and see what it does to your power consumption. (Warning: it may do bad stuff to your performance).

Pavel

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