From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Pavel Machek Subject: Re: Request for suggestions Date: Thu, 28 Sep 2006 10:19:38 +0200 Message-ID: <20060928081938.GA26128@elf.ucw.cz> References: <200609280023.23798.edu@badopi.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200609280023.23798.edu@badopi.org> List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: linux-pm-bounces@lists.osdl.org Errors-To: linux-pm-bounces@lists.osdl.org To: Eduard =?iso-8859-1?Q?Gim=E9nez?= Cc: linux-pm@lists.osdl.org List-Id: linux-pm@vger.kernel.org Hi! > As a Final Project to the Diploma in Computer Systems I'm researching way= s to improve = > power savings consumption on idle systems. We're aiming to improve the us= age of = > low power states on the processor (Px and Cx states on ACPI jargon) mainl= y on x86 = > computers, but when possible all improvements will be done architecture i= ndependent. > = > We have been thinking of direct improvements (p.e. better algorithms for = CPU = > frequency/state management) and indirect improvements, things like dyntic= ks = > or trying the reduce the USB poll rate. > = > Currently I'm writting a list of proposals, and as far as I want to do so= me = > useful work I ask you if there is any new feature or improvement that wou= ld be welcomed. > = > Any suggestion will be added to the proposals list to be reviewed. There are some funky ideas in 8hours presentation, see livejournal. Hotunplugging memory then turning it off to save power was probably craziest idea I had ;-). Pavel -- = (english) http://www.livejournal.com/~pavelmachek (cesky, pictures) http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~pavel/picture/horses/blo= g.html