From: Florian Fainelli <florian@openwrt.org>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Ayaz Abdulla <aabdulla@nvidia.com>,
manfred@colorfullife.com, davem@davemloft.net,
netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] forcedeth: add clock gating feature
Date: Tue, 28 Apr 2009 10:48:14 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200904281048.15663.florian@openwrt.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090427122447.a006a21e.akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Hi,
Le Monday 27 April 2009 21:24:47 Andrew Morton, vous avez écrit :
> On Mon, 27 Apr 2009 08:31:35 -0400
>
> Ayaz Abdulla <aabdulla@nvidia.com> wrote:
> > This patch adds support for clock gating the tx/rx engines which is
> > available on certain chipsets.
>
> What are the effects of this patch? Improved power management? Fixes
> a user-visible bug? Something else?
Clock gating is a design technique which improves power consumption by only
clocking the necessary parts of the chip.
Ayaz do you have any figures on how this patch reduces consumption ?
--
Best regards, Florian Fainelli
Email : florian@openwrt.org
http://openwrt.org
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-04-28 8:48 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-04-27 12:31 [PATCH] forcedeth: add clock gating feature Ayaz Abdulla
2009-04-27 19:24 ` Andrew Morton
2009-04-28 8:48 ` Florian Fainelli [this message]
2009-04-28 9:06 ` Paulius Zaleckas
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