Re: [PATCH 1/3] Introducing cpuidle: core cpuidle infrastructure

2007-02-13 Thread Adam Belay
On Tue, 2007-02-13 at 05:31 -0800, Venkatesh Pallipadi wrote: > On Mon, Feb 12, 2007 at 08:22:01PM -0500, Dave Jones wrote: > > On Mon, Feb 12, 2007 at 10:39:25AM -0800, Venkatesh Pallipadi wrote: > > > > > > Introducing 'cpuidle', a new CPU power management infrastructure to > > manage > > >

Re: [PATCH 1/3] Introducing cpuidle: core cpuidle infrastructure

2007-02-13 Thread Venkatesh Pallipadi
On Mon, Feb 12, 2007 at 08:22:01PM -0500, Dave Jones wrote: > On Mon, Feb 12, 2007 at 10:39:25AM -0800, Venkatesh Pallipadi wrote: > > > > Introducing 'cpuidle', a new CPU power management infrastructure to manage > > idle CPUs in a clean and efficient manner. > > cpuidle separates out the dri

Re: [PATCH 1/3] Introducing cpuidle: core cpuidle infrastructure

2007-02-12 Thread Arjan van de Ven
> The only differentiator that I can think of would be latency, but that seems > to be a) covered in a different tunable, and b) probably wouldn't affect > most people enough where it matters. > and for latency the kernel already has a policy thing that tracks the maximum latency allowed if

Re: [PATCH 1/3] Introducing cpuidle: core cpuidle infrastructure

2007-02-12 Thread Dave Jones
On Mon, Feb 12, 2007 at 10:39:25AM -0800, Venkatesh Pallipadi wrote: > > Introducing 'cpuidle', a new CPU power management infrastructure to manage > idle CPUs in a clean and efficient manner. > cpuidle separates out the drivers that can provide support for multiple types > of idle states and