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From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/3] PERF(kernel): Cleanup power events
Date: Mon, 25 Oct 2010 12:04:28 +0200
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* Thomas Renninger <trenn@suse.de> wrote:

> New power trace events:
> power:processor_idle
> power:processor_frequency
> power:machine_suspend
> 
> 
> C-state/idle accounting events:
>   power:power_start
>   power:power_end
> are replaced with:
>   power:processor_idle

Well, most power saving hw models (and the code implementing them) have this kind of 
model:

 enter power saving mode X
 exit power saving mode

Where X is some sort of 'power saving deepness' attribute, right?

 	Ingo