On Sun, 31 Aug 2008 10:51:46 +0200
"Dushan Tcholich" [off-list ref] wrote:

Hello
I found the culprit.

When using powertop I get:
Top causes for wakeups:
  35,2% (251,0)                ip : br_stp_enable_bridge (br_hello_timer_expired

So I tried to turn them off with:
brctl sethello br0 0
but the problem persisted.

You can't turn off the hello timer, it is needed for Spanning Tree to
work. The kernel should reject requests to set hello timer < 1sec.
Most routers allow 1 - 10sec.

I am going to do a new patch to add tighter range checking for STP timer
settings and another to default fowarding delay of zero if STP is disabled.