[<prev] [next>] [<thread-prev] [thread-next>] [day] [month] [year] [list]
Date: Mon, 3 Mar 2008 18:05:35 -0500 (EST)
From: Alan Stern <stern@...land.harvard.edu>
To: "Pallipadi, Venkatesh" <venkatesh.pallipadi@...el.com>
cc: Pierre Ossman <drzeus-list@...eus.cx>,
LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
Adam Belay <abelay@...ell.com>,
Andi Kleen <andi@...stfloor.org>,
Lee Revell <rlrevell@...-job.com>,
<linux-pm@...ts.linux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: [linux-pm] [PATCH] cpuidle: avoid singing capacitors
On Mon, 3 Mar 2008, Pallipadi, Venkatesh wrote:
> But, with this patch:
> - we are penalizing good hardware and making them less power efficient
> to match the bad ones.
> - There may also be server systems which first may not have these sort
> of power fluctuations and even when buggy and have this noise, system
> may be in some corner of some lab with fans making more noise than the
> capacitors.
Can you make it configurable through sysfs? Default to disabled, but
allow the user to turn it on if the machine makes too much noise.
Alan Stern
--
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org
More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
Powered by blists - more mailing lists