Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 26 Sep 2013 08:29:39 -0700 | From | Arjan van de Ven <> | Subject | Re: [Results] [RFC PATCH v4 00/40] mm: Memory Power Management |
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On 9/26/2013 5:58 AM, Srivatsa S. Bhat wrote: > Let me explain the challenge I am facing. A prototype powerpc platform that > I work with has the capability to transition memory banks to content-preserving > low-power states at a per-socket granularity. What that means is that we can > get memory power savings*without* needing to go to full-system-idle, unlike > Intel platforms such as Sandybridge.
btw this is not a correct statement even Sandybridge can put memory in low power states (just not self refresh) even if the system is not idle (depending on bios settings to enable this)
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