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From: Tejun Heo <htejun@gmail.com>
To: Kristen Carlson Accardi <kristen.c.accardi@intel.com>
Cc: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>,
	Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>,
	jeff@garzik.org, james.bottomley@steeleye.com,
	linux-ide@vger.kernel.org, linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
Subject: Re: [patch 0/3] AHCI Link Power Management
Date: Thu, 14 Jun 2007 16:56:43 +0900	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4670F4BB.3060306@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070613092607.4ddf0f79.kristen.c.accardi@intel.com>

Kristen Carlson Accardi wrote:
>>>>> 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?
>>> Yeah, it was some Lenovo notebook.  Pavel is more familiar with the
>>> hardware.  Pavel, what was the notebook which didn't save much power
>>> with standard SATA power save but needed port to be completely turned off?
>> Thinkpad x60. Some one Kristen probably used while developing the
>> patch :-).
> 
> Yes - that confirms my conclusion that the first patch just wasn't
> done correctly - cause when I measure the power savings with a power
> meter on the X60 with my patches I see ~ 1W.

Hmmm... Could it be that the controller doesn't enter powersave state
when SControl is written to?

-- 
tejun

  reply	other threads:[~2007-06-14  7:56 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
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 [this message]
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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