From: Oliver Neukum <oliver@neukum.org>
To: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>,
kernel list <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: gigabit ethernet power consumption
Date: Tue, 9 Oct 2007 08:58:46 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200710090858.46760.oliver@neukum.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20071008220720.GF3484@elf.ucw.cz>
Am Dienstag 09 Oktober 2007 schrieb Pavel Machek:
> Question is, how to implement it correctly? Daemon that would watch
> data rates and switch speeds using mii-tool would be simple, but is
> that enough?
Do you only want to affect true ethernet devices this way? It seems
to me that the savings for wireless devices could be larger and we don't
want a separate mechanism for each type of network device. So I think
you need to tell the kernel why you want to reduce the link speed.
Regards
Oliver
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-10-09 6:57 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-10-08 22:07 gigabit ethernet power consumption Pavel Machek
2007-10-08 22:31 ` Kok, Auke
2007-10-09 5:18 ` Willy Tarreau
2007-10-09 18:28 ` Lennart Sorensen
2007-10-09 18:41 ` Kok, Auke
2007-10-10 20:44 ` Mark Gross
2007-10-11 15:33 ` Kok, Auke
2007-10-11 11:35 ` K.Prasad
2007-10-11 15:18 ` Kok, Auke
2007-10-10 6:35 ` Oliver Neukum
2007-10-09 5:08 ` Chris Snook
2007-10-09 6:58 ` Oliver Neukum [this message]
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2007-10-12 2:08 ` Bodo Eggert
2007-10-12 16:35 ` Kok, Auke
2007-10-12 20:30 ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2007-10-12 20:46 ` Kok, Auke
2007-10-17 13:00 ` Lennart Sorensen
2007-10-17 16:38 ` Kok, Auke
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