From: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
To: Tejun Heo <htejun@gmail.com>
Cc: Kristen Carlson Accardi <kristen.c.accardi@intel.com>,
jeff@garzik.org, james.bottomley@steeleye.com,
linux-ide@vger.kernel.org, linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [patch 0/3] AHCI Link Power Management
Date: Mon, 11 Jun 2007 19:34:42 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <466E0642.5020506@linux.intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <466DFDB5.9030901@gmail.com>
Tejun Heo wrote:
> Kristen Carlson Accardi wrote:
>> Hi,
>> This series of patches enables Aggressive Link Power Management for AHCI
>> devices, as documented in the AHCI spec. On my laptop (a Lenovo X60), this
>> saves me a full watt of power. On other systems, reported power savings
>> range from .5-1.5 Watts. It has been tested by the kind folks at #powertop
>> with similar results. Please give it a try and let me know what you think.
>
> I'm not sure about this. We need better PM framework to support
> powersaving in other controllers and some ahcis don't save much when
> only link power management is used,
do you have data to support this? The data we have from this patch is
that it saves typically a Watt of power (depends on the machine of
course, but the range is 0.5W to 1.5W). If you want to also have an
even more agressive thing where you want to start disabling the entire
controller... I don't see how this is in conflict with saving power on
the link level by "just" enabling a hardware feature ....
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-06-12 2:34 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-06-11 18:46 [patch 0/3] AHCI Link Power Management Kristen Carlson Accardi
2007-06-12 1:58 ` Tejun Heo
2007-06-12 2:33 ` Jeff Garzik
2007-06-12 2:34 ` Arjan van de Ven [this message]
2007-06-12 3:12 ` Jeff Garzik
2007-06-12 3:12 ` Arjan van de Ven
2007-06-12 3:18 ` Jeff Garzik
2007-06-12 4:13 ` Tejun Heo
2007-06-12 4:19 ` Arjan van de Ven
2007-06-12 4:40 ` Tejun Heo
2007-06-12 15:56 ` Kristen Carlson Accardi
2007-06-12 4:43 ` Jeff Garzik
2007-06-12 15:43 ` Kristen Carlson Accardi
2007-06-13 14:51 ` Pavel Machek
2007-06-13 9:04 ` Pavel Machek
2007-06-13 16:26 ` Kristen Carlson Accardi
2007-06-14 7:56 ` Tejun Heo
2007-06-13 14:56 ` Pavel Machek
2007-06-14 11:56 ` Jens Axboe
2007-06-14 12:30 ` Tejun Heo
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