On Sat, 21 Jul 2007 11:00:38 +0200
Thomas Meyer <[email protected]> wrote:
> Stephen Hemminger schrieb:
> > Thomas Meyer <[email protected]> wrote:
> >
> >
> >> Today i did a git pull to be up to date again and i noticed in the
> >> powertop tool that i'll get this new entry
> >>
> >> 14,2% ( 9,1) <kernel core> : sky2_probe (sky2_idle)
> >>
> >> with around 10 interrupts per second.
> >>
> >> i think (i.e. i don't know and just guessing!) this commit is
> >> responsible for these wake ups:
> >>
> >> git show eb35cf60e462491249166182e3e755d3d5d91a28
> >>
> >> Author: Stephen Hemminger <[email protected]>
> >> Date: Tue Jun 13 17:17:31 2006 +0900
> >>
> >> [PATCH] sky2: stop/start hardware idle timer on suspend/resume
> >>
> >> The resume bug was caused not by an early interrupt but because the idle
> >> timeout was not being stopped on suspend. Also disable hardware IRQ's
> >> on suspend. Will need to revisit this with hotplug?
> >>
> >> Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <[email protected]>
> >> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
> >>
> >> Any ideas?
> >>
> >>
> >
> > Last version has idle timer enabled.
> > It is a tradeoff between device hanging due to lost interrupt or wasting power.
> > You can make the timeout longer by setting idle_timeout module parameter larger,
> > (or zero which will disable it).
> >
> Ok. But do you need to start the timer when no cable is plugged in, like
> in the case above?
Probably not, because risk of missed PHY interrupt is miniscule.
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