Comment 81 for bug 524281

Well, I was about to rant half an hour ago about people complaining here without understanding the issue, but Richard clearly explained the issue - thanks for that.

As for other ditros, I just booted my Arch Linux I had installed some time ago to test this. The older powertop version 1.11 shows the wakeups as coming from "hrtimer_start_range_ns (tick_sched_timer)" instead of "[kernel scheduler] Load balancing tick", but has exactly the same numbers as the newer powertop 1.12. Arch was running 2.6.34-ARCH, my Ubuntu is running 2.6.32-24 as well as 2.6.34.1, and the figures are identical, so NO, switching the distro doesn't help!

I'll rework the description in a moment to better describe the cause of the problem, list possible workarounds (namely downgrading to 2.6.31 or upgrading to -tip/Brian's ppa) and linking in the lkml threads.