Date: Mon, 4 May 2009 20:19:01 +0200 From: Lucius Windschuh <lwindschuh@googlemail.com> To: Alexander Motin <mav@freebsd.org> Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org, freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Fighting for the power. Message-ID: <90a5caac0905041119h70101d12i56863e57b27d2e55@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <49FE1826.4060000@FreeBSD.org> References: <49FE1826.4060000@FreeBSD.org>
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2009/5/4 Alexander Motin <mav@freebsd.org>:
> I would like to summarize some of my knowledge on reducing FreeBSD power
> consumption and describe some new things I have recently implemented in
> 8-CURRENT. The main character of this story is my 12" Acer TravelMate
> 6292 laptop with C2D T7700 2.4GHz CPU, 965GM chipset and SATA HDD, under
> amd64 8-CURRENT.
First, thank you for your report about power saving on current laptops. :-)
> 1. CPU
> [...]
> - C3 state allows CPU completely stop all internal clocks, reduce
> voltage and disconnect from system bus. This state gives additional
> power saving effect, but it is not cheap and require trade-offs.
> As soon as CPU is completely stopped in C3 state, local APIC timers in
> each CPU core, used by FreeBSD as event sources on SMP, are not
> functioning. It stops system time, breaks scheduling that makes system
> close to dead. The only solution for this problem is to use some
> external timers. Originally, before SMP era, FreeBSD used i8254 (for HZ)
> and RTC (for stats) chipset timers. I have made changes to 8-CURRENT to
> resurrect them for SMP systems. To use them, you can disable local APIC
> timers by adding to /boot/loader.conf:
> hint.apic.0.clock=0
I tried this on CURRENT@r191784 (i386) on a Thinkpad T400 (Intel(R)
Core(TM)2 Duo CPU T9400) with INVARIANTS, etc. enabled.
The result was a panic shortly before /sbin/init is called:
panic: lapic1: zero divisor
So, the KASSERT in sys/i386/local_apic.c:325 fired:
KASSERT(lapic_timer_period != 0, ("lapic%u: zero divisor",
lapic_id()));
Did I forget something?
My /boot/loader.conf:
hint.p4tcc.0.disabled=1
hint.acpi_throttle.0.disabled=1
kern.hz=100
hint.atrtc.0.clock=0
hint.apic.0.clock=0
hint.ata.2.pm_level=2
hint.ata.3.pm_level=3
vm.pmap.pg_ps_enabled=1
dmesg: http://sites.google.com/site/lwfreebsd/Home/files/dmesg-T400-FreeBSD-CURRENT.txt
kernel config: http://sites.google.com/site/lwfreebsd/Home/files/kernel-CURRENT.txt
Regards
Lucius
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