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From: Pierre Ossman <drzeus-list@drzeus.cx>
To: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
Cc: LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
linux-pm@lists.linux-foundation.org, "Pallipadi,
Venkatesh" <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com>,
Dave Jones <davej@codemonkey.org.uk>,
Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>,
Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>,
Adam Belay <abelay@novell.com>, Lee Revell <rlrevell@joe-job.com>,
Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
Subject: Re: [linux-pm] [PATCH] cpuidle: avoid singing capacitors
Date: Tue, 11 Mar 2008 16:20:26 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080311162026.012744cd@mjolnir.drzeus.cx> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080311104822.GC18917@one.firstfloor.org>
On Tue, 11 Mar 2008 11:48:22 +0100
Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org> wrote:
> > I have now found a very hacky workaround that is slightly better than
> > disabling C3 altogether; making C3 exclusive to one core at a time. It
> > seems to kill the noise and the system now spends 50% in C3, instead of
> > 0%.
>
> I suspect it won't do much of C3 if only one core is idle this way.
> Most likely you just disabled C3 this way in a way invisible to software.
>
What a letdown... I'll pull out the old watt meter again and see if I can confirm that.
Rgds
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-- Pierre Ossman
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-03-11 15:20 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 66+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-02-29 18:38 [RFC][PATCH] " Pierre Ossman
2008-02-29 21:44 ` Lennart Sorensen
2008-03-01 12:31 ` Pierre Ossman
2008-03-01 13:40 ` Pierre Ossman
2008-03-02 2:27 ` Lee Revell
2008-03-02 14:17 ` Pierre Ossman
2008-03-03 12:36 ` Andi Kleen
2008-03-03 20:18 ` [PATCH] " Pierre Ossman
2008-03-03 20:46 ` Pavel Machek
2008-03-03 21:03 ` Pierre Ossman
2008-03-03 21:08 ` Pavel Machek
2008-03-03 21:14 ` Pallipadi, Venkatesh
2008-03-03 21:17 ` Pierre Ossman
2008-03-03 22:04 ` Pallipadi, Venkatesh
2008-03-03 23:05 ` [linux-pm] " Alan Stern
2008-03-03 23:10 ` Andi Kleen
2008-03-04 4:00 ` Dave Jones
2008-03-04 6:14 ` Pierre Ossman
2008-03-04 17:19 ` Pierre Ossman
2008-03-04 17:29 ` Andi Kleen
2008-03-04 17:30 ` Pierre Ossman
2008-03-04 17:43 ` Andi Kleen
2008-03-04 18:04 ` Pierre Ossman
2008-03-04 18:34 ` Andi Kleen
2008-03-05 6:04 ` Pierre Ossman
2008-03-05 15:48 ` Andi Kleen
2008-03-05 16:53 ` Pierre Ossman
2008-03-05 17:32 ` Andi Kleen
2008-03-04 19:01 ` Pallipadi, Venkatesh
2008-03-05 6:02 ` Pierre Ossman
2008-03-05 8:40 ` Pierre Ossman
2008-03-05 9:03 ` Pavel Machek
2008-03-05 13:42 ` Pierre Ossman
2008-03-05 13:47 ` Pavel Machek
2008-03-05 13:52 ` Pierre Ossman
2008-03-06 8:27 ` Pierre Ossman
2008-03-09 14:16 ` Pierre Ossman
2008-03-09 18:19 ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2008-03-09 18:50 ` Alan Stern
2008-03-09 19:30 ` Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
2008-03-09 20:14 ` Pierre Ossman
2008-03-09 20:41 ` Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
2008-03-09 20:54 ` Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
2008-03-10 10:00 ` Pavel Machek
2008-03-10 12:49 ` Pierre Ossman
2008-03-10 13:04 ` Andi Kleen
2008-03-10 13:29 ` Pierre Ossman
2008-03-12 19:11 ` Len Brown
2008-03-13 8:10 ` Pavel Machek
2008-03-13 10:42 ` Andi Kleen
2008-03-14 4:13 ` Len Brown
2008-03-13 16:34 ` Pierre Ossman
2008-03-13 16:47 ` Pallipadi, Venkatesh
2008-03-13 17:44 ` Pierre Ossman
2008-03-13 17:49 ` Pierre Ossman
2008-03-14 19:40 ` Pierre Ossman
2008-03-14 21:15 ` Pallipadi, Venkatesh
2008-03-15 0:41 ` Pierre Ossman
2008-03-11 7:51 ` Pierre Ossman
2008-03-11 10:48 ` Andi Kleen
2008-03-11 15:20 ` Pierre Ossman [this message]
2008-03-11 17:31 ` Pierre Ossman
2008-03-12 19:17 ` Len Brown
2008-03-12 20:31 ` Len Brown
2008-03-04 9:40 ` Andi Kleen
2008-03-03 23:09 ` Andi Kleen
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