A Proper Solution To The Linux ASPM Problem

[cyring]

kworker

is this patch may also fixe the excessive CPU usage of the kernel kworker threads (when idle-ing) ?

[AlbertP]

It's perhaps easier to wait for a kernel which has this patch included.
Here's a page on installing newer Ubuntu kernels: http://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?f=42&t=40185

[cyring]

kworker

Is this going to resolv the kworker thread consumming CPU usage (when linux idles) ?

[AlbertP]

No. This is a very different issue.

[cyring]

No. This is a very different issue.

Thanks for the quick answer !

Did you find any links / ideas that show howto reduce ?

Regards

[cyring]

Thanks
Any links/ideas howto reduce kworker ?

[AlbertP]

Please open a new topic or look for a topic about kworker on this forum, or another forum. This topic is about ASPM.

[quarara]

It's perhaps easier to wait for a kernel which has this patch included.
Here's a page on installing newer Ubuntu kernels: http://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?f=42&t=40185

Thanks, I hope it will come soon, as I hope Ubuntu team will include the patch in its kernel.

[AlbertP]

It currently looks like the patch will be in the 3.3 kernel. It might be backported to older kernels but the kernel developers still want to test it.

[Bucic]

I'm not a Linux savvy but why do you guys talk about compiling kernel etc. when the debs are available? See here https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/PowerManagement With this it requires user to issue literally two terminal commands to get his new kernel ready. I got

~$ uname -a
... 3.0.0-13-generic #22+mjgaspmfix ...

so I think I've succeeded.

That it didn't give me any improvements regarding power issues is a whole another story http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.p...9#post11460009

I'd appreciate if anyone could comment on that last bit.