[Rescheduling interrupts] <kernel IPI> and i8042, too many wakeups are consuming my battery

[carlosv]

Hi,

My laptop is wasting too much energy. I have a Lenovo e420s. Core i5 sandy bridge. Normaly it supposed to last 5 hours the battery life but in Ubuntu is reduced to 2,5 hours. I have tried all the ACPI options in the documentation https://help.ubuntu.com/community/ReschedulingInterrupts and no help.

The powertop shows:

Wakeups-from-idle per second : 57.6 interval: 60.0s
Power usage (ACPI estimate): 16.2W (2.5 hours)
Top causes for wakeups:
  27.0% ( 67.8) [Rescheduling interrupts] <kernel IPI>
  16.9% ( 42.4) [iwlwifi] <interrupt>
   8.5% ( 21.4) [i915] <interrupt>
   8.3% ( 20.9) compiz
   6.7% ( 16.9) fingerprint-pol
   6.7% ( 16.8) swapper/2
   6.2% ( 15.5) PS/2 keyboard/mouse/touchpad interrupt
   6.0% ( 15.1) swapper/0
   0.4% ( 1.1)D tor
   0.0% ( 0.1)D nmbd
   2.0% ( 5.0) syndaemon
   1.7% ( 4.2) swapper/1
   1.4% ( 3.4) swapper/3
   1.2% ( 3.0) Xorg
   1.0% ( 2.5) [ahci] <interrupt>
   0.8% ( 2.0) [ehci_hcd:usb2] <interrupt>
   0.8% ( 2.0) nautilus
   0.7% ( 1.8) [acpi] <interrupt>
   0.4% ( 1.1) kworker/0:3
   0.4% ( 1.0) gvfs-afc-volume

And in the file /proc/interrupts I got:

          CPU0 CPU1 CPU2 CPU3
  0: 51 0 0 0 IO-APIC-edge timer
  1: 1682 0 0 0 IO-APIC-edge i8042
  8: 1 0 0 0 IO-APIC-edge rtc0
  9: 4898 0 60 0 IO-APIC-fasteoi acpi
 12: 620964 0 0 0 IO-APIC-edge i8042
 16: 4652 0 0 0 IO-APIC-fasteoi ehci_hcd:usb1
 18: 0 0 0 0 IO-APIC-fasteoi mmc0
 23: 4874 0 22381 0 IO-APIC-fasteoi ehci_hcd:usb2
 41: 44574 0 0 0 PCI-MSI-edge ahci
 42: 0 0 0 0 PCI-MSI-edge eth1
 43: 24972 0 200125 0 PCI-MSI-edge i915
 44: 15 0 0 0 PCI-MSI-edge mei
 45: 86374 0 0 0 PCI-MSI-edge iwlwifi
 46: 935 0 0 0 PCI-MSI-edge snd_hda_intel
NMI: 235 79 190 74 Non-maskable interrupts
LOC: 138801 99257 130245 107984 Local timer interrupts
SPU: 0 0 0 0 Spurious interrupts
PMI: 235 79 190 74 Performance monitoring interrupts
IWI: 0 0 0 0 IRQ work interrupts
RES: 400015 111852 409898 123532 Rescheduling interrupts
CAL: 646 703 672 724 Function call interrupts
TLB: 21777 7266 15390 6198 TLB shootdowns
TRM: 4 4 4 4 Thermal event interrupts
THR: 0 0 0 0 Threshold APIC interrupts
MCE: 0 0 0 0 Machine check exceptions
MCP: 7 7 7 7 Machine check polls
ERR: 0
MIS: 0

The module (or driver) i8042 woke up 620964 times the CPU.

Does any body has the idea why my laptop is wasting so much power?

[megain (lunch-j)]

same thing here ubuntu 12. 04 3.2.0-29-generic x86_64
kernel rescheduling and i915 are interrupting the hell out of the cpu

Power usage (ACPI estimate): 16.9W (0.7 hours) (long term: 9.9W,/1.2h)

Top causes for wakeups:
  58.9% (949.1) [Rescheduling interrupts] <kernel IPI>
   9.5% (152.7) [i915] <interrupt>
   6.1% ( 97.9) swapper/1
   4.9% ( 78.9) swapper/0
   3.6% ( 57.6) swapper/3
   3.3% ( 53.5) swapper/2
   2.5% ( 40.7) USB device 1-1.2 : Apple Internal Keyboard / Trackpad (Apple Inc.)
   2.4% ( 38.7) [ehci_hcd:usb1] <interrupt>
   1.0% ( 16.5) compiz
   0.7% ( 11.8) [mmc0, b43] <interrupt>
   0.5% ( 8.1) [acpi] <interrupt>
   0.3% ( 5.0) syndaemon
   0.2% ( 4.0) unity-panel-ser
   0.2% ( 3.7) [TLB shootdowns] <kernel IPI>
   0.2% ( 2.7) [ata_piix, uhci_hcd:usb4] <interrupt>
   0.1% ( 2.0) kworker/1:1
   0.1% ( 2.0) indicator-multi
   0.1% ( 2.0) kworker/u:0
   0.1% ( 1.2) Xorg
   0.1% ( 1.0) gvfs-afc-volume
   0.1% ( 1.0) kworker/u:2
   0.1% ( 1.0) watchdog/0
   0.0% ( 0.7) indicator-cpufr
   0.0% ( 0.7) upowerd
   0.0% ( 0.5) kworker/1:0
   0.0% ( 0.3) accounts-daemon
   0.0% ( 0.3) unity-applicati
   0.0% ( 0.3) zeitgeist-datah
   0.0% ( 0.3) gnome-settings-
   0.0% ( 0.2) update-notifier

/proc/interrupts

        CPU0 CPU1 CPU2 CPU3
  0: 51 0 0 0 IO-APIC-edge timer
  8: 1 0 0 0 IO-APIC-edge rtc0
  9: 23200 0 0 0 IO-APIC-fasteoi acpi
 17: 49638 0 0 0 IO-APIC-fasteoi mmc0, b43
 19: 36781 0 0 0 IO-APIC-fasteoi ata_piix, uhci_hcd:usb4
 21: 0 0 0 0 IO-APIC-fasteoi uhci_hcd:usb3
 22: 61 0 0 0 IO-APIC-fasteoi ehci_hcd:usb2
 23: 123062 41 0 0 IO-APIC-fasteoi ehci_hcd:usb1
 40: 0 0 0 0 PCI-MSI-edge PCIe PME
 41: 0 0 0 0 PCI-MSI-edge PCIe PME
 42: 0 0 0 0 PCI-MSI-edge PCIe PME
 43: 0 0 0 0 PCI-MSI-edge PCIe PME
 44: 0 0 0 0 PCI-MSI-edge PCIe PME
 45: 22 21 0 0 PCI-MSI-edge firewire_ohci
 46: 12 0 0 0 PCI-MSI-edge mei
 47: 331877 0 0 0 PCI-MSI-edge i915
 48: 334 806 0 0 PCI-MSI-edge snd_hda_intel
 49: 1 0 0 0 PCI-MSI-edge eth0-0
 50: 1 0 0 0 PCI-MSI-edge eth0-1
 51: 1 0 0 0 PCI-MSI-edge eth0-2
 52: 1 0 0 0 PCI-MSI-edge eth0-3
 53: 1 0 0 0 PCI-MSI-edge eth0-4
NMI: 60 52 21 20 Non-maskable interrupts
LOC: 306654 ...