Re: [PATCH] SATA / AHCI: Do not play with the link PM during suspend to RAM

[Tejun Heo <htejun@gmail.com>]

Hello,

On 08/17/2010 11:28 PM, Stephan Diestelhorst wrote:
> 2010/8/17 Tejun Heo <htejun@gmail.com>:
>> On 08/17/2010 12:51 PM, Stephan Diestelhorst wrote:
>>> I *think* I have applied the patch correctly. Please find a copy of
>>> "git show" in the build directory attached. This should be the right
>>> thing, shouldn't it?
>>
>>> Maybe I forgot to speify a particular debug option / verbosity?
>>
>>> I've also confirmed that the "XXX ahci_set_ipm" is present in
>>> libahci.ko. So either I've screwed up badly when compiling the initrd,
>>> the code is not executed or the printout does not make it into any
>>> logfile anymore.
>>
>> Yeah, that's weird.  You're enabling IPM, right?
> 
> Erm... Honestly, I have no clue. What is IPM? How do I enable it? This is a
> Kubuntu Lucid 10.04 distribution, and I have not touched too much. In
> particular, the kernels have been from upstream git, just with the Ubuntu config
> copied over.
> 
> Maybe it is just not enabled? I am guessing that IPM might be IDE power
> management? Or intelligent, integrated? Google turns up this email thread
> as one of the first hits and nothing else conclusive.

It's interface power management, also called link power management.
You can check whether it's enabled by

$ cat /sys/class/scsi_host/host0/link_power_management_policy

If it says max_performance, it's disabled.  If it says anything else,
it's enabled.

Thanks.

-- 
tejun