From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1757001Ab1K2Ws0 (ORCPT ); Tue, 29 Nov 2011 17:48:26 -0500 Received: from ogre.sisk.pl ([217.79.144.158]:34624 "EHLO ogre.sisk.pl" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754412Ab1K2WsZ (ORCPT ); Tue, 29 Nov 2011 17:48:25 -0500 From: "Rafael J. Wysocki" To: Michal Hocko Subject: Re: [REGRESSION] [Linux 3.2] top/htop and all other CPU usage Date: Tue, 29 Nov 2011 23:51:16 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.13.6 (Linux/3.2.0-rc3+; KDE/4.6.0; x86_64; ; ) Cc: "Artem S. Tashkinov" , pomac@vapor.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, tino.keitel@tikei.de References: <20111128222803.GA4925@pomac.netswarm.net> <1833322904.224056.1322571256185.JavaMail.mail@webmail07> <20111129131042.GC4043@tiehlicka.suse.cz> In-Reply-To: <20111129131042.GC4043@tiehlicka.suse.cz> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <201111292351.16233.rjw@sisk.pl> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Tuesday, November 29, 2011, Michal Hocko wrote: > On Tue 29-11-11 12:54:16, Artem S. Tashkinov wrote: > > > On Nov 29, 2011, Michal Hocko wrote: > > > > > > On Tue 29-11-11 13:31:56, Michal Hocko wrote: > > > > On Tue 29-11-11 11:38:47, Artem S. Tashkinov wrote: > > > [...] > > > > > $ grep . -r /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpuidle/ > > > > > /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpuidle/current_driver:intel_idle > > > > > /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpuidle/current_governor_ro:menu > > > > > > Could you try with acpi_idle driver? > > > echo acpi_idle > /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpuidle/current_driver > > > > [root@localhost ~]# echo acpi_idle > /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpuidle/current_driver > > -bash: /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpuidle/current_driver: Permission denied > > It seems that this is cannot be set in runtime: > SYSDEV_CLASS_ATTR(current_driver, 0444, show_current_driver, NULL); > > Or maybe you need to boot with cpuidle_sysfs_switch. According to the > documentation you might be able to change the governor. I have no idea > whether this can help somehow but let's try that. > > I haven't found any intel_idle machine in my lab so far and all other > acpi_idle machines seem to work (or at least randomly selected ones) so > this smells like a major difference in the setup. I'm able to reproduce that with acpi_driver on one box, but not on demand. Thanks, Rafael