From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1758029AbZBKWZp (ORCPT ); Wed, 11 Feb 2009 17:25:45 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1754921AbZBKWZh (ORCPT ); Wed, 11 Feb 2009 17:25:37 -0500 Received: from rn-out-0910.google.com ([64.233.170.185]:11334 "EHLO rn-out-0910.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754589AbZBKWZg (ORCPT ); Wed, 11 Feb 2009 17:25:36 -0500 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:date:message-id:subject:from:to:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; b=BXHHJlux0f6rjfewebjw7EcC9WuxW52XL7h+foN6Kijt+zP1kxN3BI/G7TxPa4iloq fkalzMgoddXOZkaB+rhPYz2XGTh0OKSSrxB27iN1OLFvsau38eMblnIL3Z4LEtRCOYeI BdAqEClc7zRv7+KnoPsWByaRcQSpC6L4d1ge4= MIME-Version: 1.0 Date: Wed, 11 Feb 2009 18:25:34 -0400 Message-ID: Subject: kernels 2.6.29.rc3 2.1 3.1 4.1 5.1 6.1 7.1 and rc4 8.1 Is ACPI broken ??????? From: rob koendering To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org hi all the second posting went wrong due tot gmail problem (network) this is /proc/interrupts did the following run with full acpi CPU0 CPU1 CPU2 CPU3 0: 97 0 0 0 IO-APIC-edge timer 1: 7310 0 0 0 IO-APIC-edge i8042 7: 1 0 0 0 IO-APIC-edge 8: 1 0 0 0 IO-APIC-edge rtc0 9: 0 0 0 0 IO-APIC-fasteoi acpi 12: 115 36083 0 0 IO-APIC-edge i8042 14: 8029 0 0 0 IO-APIC-edge pata_amd 15: 0 0 0 0 IO-APIC-edge pata_amd 16: 94270 0 0 0 IO-APIC-fasteoi sym53c8xx, nvidia 17: 13352 0 0 0 IO-APIC-fasteoi 0000:02:07.0 19: 2 0 0 0 IO-APIC-fasteoi ohci1394 20: 108 0 15721 0 IO-APIC-fasteoi ohci_hcd:usb1 21: 190 0 0 4807 IO-APIC-fasteoi sata_nv 22: 76802 0 0 0 IO-APIC-fasteoi sata_nv, HDA Intel 23: 306 3394 0 0 IO-APIC-fasteoi sata_nv, ehci_hcd:usb2 NMI: 0 0 0 0 Non-maskable interrupts LOC: 386083 362373 201504 188108 Local timer interrupts RES: 5424 3506 2743 2027 Rescheduling interrupts CAL: 2916 3637 5086 5499 Function call interrupts TLB: 1013 2101 1904 2128 TLB shootdowns TRM: 0 0 0 0 Thermal event interrupts THR: 0 0 0 0 Threshold APIC interrupts SPU: 0 0 0 0 Spurious interrupts ERR: 1 MIS: 0 then run with no acpi CPU0 CPU1 CPU2 CPU3 0: 88 0 0 0 IO-APIC-edge timer 1: 16 0 0 0 IO-APIC-edge i8042 2: 0 0 0 0 XT-PIC-XT cascade 5: 56805 0 0 0 IO-APIC-fasteoi sata_nv, HDA Intel 7: 3 0 0 0 IO-APIC-fasteoi sata_nv, ohci1394 8: 1 0 0 0 IO-APIC-edge rtc0 9: 0 0 0 0 IO-APIC-edge acpi 10: 299 5730 0 0 IO-APIC-fasteoi sata_nv, ohci_hcd:usb1, nvidia 11: 588 0 0 1174 IO-APIC-fasteoi sym53c8xx, ehci_hcd:usb2, 0000:02:07.0 12: 115 0 3843 0 IO-APIC-edge i8042 14: 684 0 0 0 IO-APIC-edge pata_amd 15: 0 0 0 0 IO-APIC-edge pata_amd NMI: 0 0 0 0 Non-maskable interrupts LOC: 30438 23491 22784 25051 Local timer interrupts RES: 1618 802 664 743 Rescheduling interrupts CAL: 3828 1716 5318 5331 Function call interrupts TLB: 598 737 659 927 TLB shootdowns TRM: 0 0 0 0 Thermal event interrupts THR: 0 0 0 0 Threshold APIC interrupts SPU: 0 0 0 0 Spurious interrupts ERR: 1 MIS: 0 in both cases irq-balancer is running see the difference in IO-APIC-edge i8042 This is a raid 0 system in the acpi run irq 22 23 is the raid array and in the no acpi run irq 5 7 is the raid array all togethher the no acpi run gives a more equal load on the 4 cpu's as the acpi run gives 0 60 to 90 % load on cpu 0 the other cpu's not more then 4 to 10 percent with intervals hope this gives you more info in what i mean 2.6.27 kernels acted more like the no acpi setting. and no warning on the acpi tables in the bios -- Robert Koendering Willemstad Curacao