On Thu, Aug 23, 2012 at 02:54:05PM -0700, Arjan van de Ven wrote: > On 8/23/2012 2:11 PM, Rik van Riel wrote: > > This patch set is mostly there to kick off a discussion in time > > for Kernel Summit. When running it on my laptop, with acpi_idle, > > I see a promising change in powertop. > > be careful with acpi_idle... that will remove most of the intermediate C > states the platform has, > so the policy engine no longer has good things to chose from.
Not inherently - intel_idle typically only exports 4 C states, and many ACPI platforms will provide the same number, especially when on battery. -- Matthew Garrett | [email protected] -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
