From: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
To: Mark Lord <liml@rtr.ca>
Cc: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>,
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 17:42:58 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <47C34472.3090706@garzik.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <47C34081.5090205@rtr.ca>
Mark Lord wrote:
> Pavel Machek wrote:
>> 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.
> It makes good use of AHCI-specific features.
>
> Has it been tested with a Port-Multiplier yet?
>
> 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.
BTW we can also save power by allowing the user to choose to disable
hotplugging support. Then we can power down PHYs that are not in use.
That requires the addition of some policy controls, because it is
user-specific whether or not to waste power waiting for a plug-in event.
Jeff
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-02-25 22:43 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
2008-02-26 15:52 ` Mark Lord
2008-02-26 21:49 ` Pavel Machek
2008-02-25 22:42 ` Jeff Garzik [this message]
2008-02-26 16:21 ` Matthew Garrett
2008-03-21 7:49 ` Oliver Neukum
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