From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1758913AbZLOARB (ORCPT ); Mon, 14 Dec 2009 19:17:01 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1758379AbZLOAQ7 (ORCPT ); Mon, 14 Dec 2009 19:16:59 -0500 Received: from casper.infradead.org ([85.118.1.10]:42920 "EHLO casper.infradead.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1758280AbZLOAQ6 (ORCPT ); Mon, 14 Dec 2009 19:16:58 -0500 Date: Mon, 14 Dec 2009 16:19:22 -0800 From: Arjan van de Ven To: Salman Qazi Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-pm@lists.linux-foundation.org, Andrew Morton , Michael Rubin , Taliver Heath Subject: Re: RFC: A proposal for power capping through forced idle in the Linux Kernel Message-ID: <20091214161922.6f252492@infradead.org> In-Reply-To: <4352991a0912141511k7f9b8b79y767c693a4ff3bc2b@mail.gmail.com> References: <4352991a0912141511k7f9b8b79y767c693a4ff3bc2b@mail.gmail.com> Organization: Intel X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.7.3 (GTK+ 2.16.6; i586-redhat-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-SRS-Rewrite: SMTP reverse-path rewritten from by casper.infradead.org See http://www.infradead.org/rpr.html Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Mon, 14 Dec 2009 15:11:47 -0800 Salman Qazi wrote: I like the general idea, I have one request (that I didn't see quite in your explanation): Please make sure that all cpus in the system do their idle injection at the same time, so that memory can go into power saving mode as well during this time etc etc... -- Arjan van de Ven Intel Open Source Technology Centre For development, discussion and tips for power savings, visit http://www.lesswatts.org