Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 3 Mar 2008 21:46:03 +0100 | From | Pavel Machek <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] cpuidle: avoid singing capacitors |
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Hi!
> I've been playing around with this for a bit, and the jiffies approach > just had too many gotchas. So I tried using the information that was > already present in the menu governor. This is what I came up with. > > It solves the primary problem of getting rid of the noise. I've also > tried some crude power measurements and I couldn't get any difference > with and without the patch. Powertop also nicely shows that the CPU is > still spending almost all of its time in C3. Therefore, I'm letting the > effects of it be enabled by default. > > So I'm taking the [RFC] off it. Please still test and see that it > solves the issue on other machines, and the it does not cause any big > power surges. > > diff --git a/drivers/cpuidle/governors/menu.c b/drivers/cpuidle/governors/menu.c > index 78d77c5..d9c43e3 100644 > --- a/drivers/cpuidle/governors/menu.c > +++ b/drivers/cpuidle/governors/menu.c > @@ -16,6 +16,8 @@ > > #define BREAK_FUZZ 4 /* 4 us */ > > +static unsigned int min_deep_sleep = 2000; > +
Well, why not, but I believe we should default to old behaviour... not all machines are cheaply-build. Pavel -- (english) http://www.livejournal.com/~pavelmachek (cesky, pictures) http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~pavel/picture/horses/blog.html
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