Ingo Molnar wrote: > * Németh Márton wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> there is a problem in 2.6.26-rc3 which was not there in case of >> 2.6.25: the CPU wakes up ~90,000 times per sec instead of ~60 per sec. >> >> I also "git bisected" the problem, the result is: >> >> 6e908947b4995bc0e551a8257c586d5c3e428201 is first bad commit >> commit 6e908947b4995bc0e551a8257c586d5c3e428201 >> Author: Ingo Molnar >> Date: Fri Mar 21 14:32:36 2008 +0100 >> >> x86: fix ioapic bug again > > thanks for tracking this down. Could you check whether the problem is > also fixed in latest -tip? In particular the tip/x86/apic branch should > properly solve this. You can pick up -tip via: > > http://people.redhat.com/mingo/tip.git/README > > but those tip/x86/apic fixes are too intrusive for v2.6.26, so i've > queued up your revert into tip/x86/urgent, for v2.6.26 merging. Would be > nice if you could check -tip though, to make sure we dont reintroduce > the same problem again in v2.6.27. I tested 2.6.26-rc5-00996-gb7d80d3 with the attached .config. I get ~50 wakeups per second which I guess is caused by the lack of hardware. I also attached the full dmesg. Passed. Márton Németh