From: Kalle Valo <kalle.valo@iki.fi>
To: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Cc: linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC 0/3] mac80211 powersave improvements
Date: Thu, 16 Apr 2009 14:11:40 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87eivs97kj.fsf@litku.valot.fi> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1239880000.9737.20.camel@johannes.local> (Johannes Berg's message of "Thu\, 16 Apr 2009 13\:06\:40 +0200")
Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> writes:
> On Thu, 2009-04-16 at 14:01 +0300, Kalle Valo wrote:
>
>> I think this a bad idea. For normal users we should not enable powersave
>> by default, at least not yet. I believe that there would be so much
>> problems that we would have to revert the change eventually.
>
> We can go with the configurable one -- and default y in wireless-testing
> but default n in mainline for a while. Get press coverage etc. and at
> some point flip the switch.
That's a lot better. Gradually expanding the amount of users makes it
easier. Big bang is always difficult and usually doomed to a failure :)
>> > Should we have a default setting for the dynamic PS
>> > timeout?
>>
>> Yes. Having timeout zero makes no sense in normal laptop use.
>
> So, what's a good default? Fairly long I'd say, maybe 500ms?
Yes, at least. Maybe even 1s? We can gradually start lowering it.
--
Kalle Valo
prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-04-16 11:11 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-04-15 17:10 [RFC 0/3] mac80211 powersave improvements Johannes Berg
2009-04-15 17:10 ` [RFC 1/3] mac80211: improve powersave implementation Johannes Berg
2009-04-15 19:38 ` [RFC 1/3 v2] " Johannes Berg
2009-04-16 10:55 ` Kalle Valo
2009-04-15 17:10 ` [RFC 2/3] mac80211: disable powersave if pm_qos asks for low latency Johannes Berg
2009-04-15 19:38 ` [RFC 2/3 v2] " Johannes Berg
2009-04-16 10:58 ` Kalle Valo
2009-04-15 17:10 ` [RFC 3/3] mac80211: enable PS by default Johannes Berg
2009-04-16 10:39 ` [RFC 3/3 v2] " Johannes Berg
2009-04-16 11:01 ` [RFC 0/3] mac80211 powersave improvements Kalle Valo
2009-04-16 11:06 ` Johannes Berg
2009-04-16 11:11 ` Kalle Valo [this message]
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