From: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
To: Mark Lord <liml@rtr.ca>
Cc: kernel list <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Linux-pm mailing list <linux-pm@lists.osdl.org>,
stern@rowland.harvard.edu, linux-ide@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [ugly patch] Save .15W-.5W by AHCI powersaving
Date: Mon, 25 Feb 2008 23:34:32 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080225223432.GN2659@elf.ucw.cz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <47C34081.5090205@rtr.ca>
Hi!
>> This is a patch (very ugly, assumes you have just one disk) to bring
>> powersaving to AHCI. You need Alan's SCSI autosuspend (attached) patch
>> as a base.
>>
>> It saves .5W compared to config with disk spinning, and even .15W
>> compared to hdparm -y... on my thinkpad x60 anyway.
> ..
>
> There was a discussion of this here today.
Real-life discussion, or something I could read? :-).
> It makes good use of AHCI-specific features.
>
> Has it been tested with a Port-Multiplier yet?
I do not know what port-multiplier is, sorry. But it was not really
tested. It is not expected to work on any other config than notebook
very similar to mine.
> This is cool enough that we really ought to do a hardware-independent
> version, so that all SATA interfaces could benefit. Especially ata_piix,
> but others too.
Well, it seems like it is 10 lines per driver once Alan's SCSI
autosuspend patches are in...
Pavel
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-02-25 22:34 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-02-25 13:45 [ugly patch] Save .15W-.5W by AHCI powersaving Pavel Machek
2008-02-25 22:26 ` Mark Lord
2008-02-25 22:34 ` Pavel Machek [this message]
2008-02-26 15:52 ` Mark Lord
2008-02-26 21:49 ` Pavel Machek
2008-02-25 22:42 ` Jeff Garzik
2008-02-26 16:21 ` Matthew Garrett
2008-03-21 7:49 ` Oliver Neukum
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