Messages in this thread | | | From | (Dagfinn Ilmari Mannsåker) | Subject | Re: [patch 3/3] Enable Aggressive Link Power management for AHCI controllers. | Date | Tue, 12 Jun 2007 02:54:52 +0100 |
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Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com> writes:
> Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: >> On Mon, 11 Jun 2007, Kristen Carlson Accardi wrote: >>> Setting Effect >>> ---------------------------------------------------------- >>> min_power ALPM is enabled, and link set to enter lowest >>> power state (SLUMBER) when idle >>> Hot plug not allowed. >>> >>> max_performance ALPM is disabled, Hot Plug is allowed >>> >>> medium_power ALPM is enabled, and link set to enter >>> second lowest power state (PARTIAL) when >>> idle. Hot plug not allowed. >> Just some food for thought: >> If you split it into a enable/disable (0/1) attribute, and a level >> attribute > > on/off doesn't really make sense if the question is "do you favor power > or do you favor performance".......
How about just making it a numeric scale with 0 meaning no power saving and then some fixed number of levels (e.g 0-9)?
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