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Message-ID: <466E05F5.3090501@garzik.org>
Date:	Mon, 11 Jun 2007 22:33:25 -0400
From:	Jeff Garzik <jeff@...zik.org>
To:	Tejun Heo <htejun@...il.com>
CC:	Kristen Carlson Accardi <kristen.c.accardi@...el.com>,
	james.bottomley@...eleye.com, linux-ide@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-scsi@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	arjan@...ux.intel.com
Subject: Re: [patch 0/3] AHCI Link Power Management

Tejun Heo wrote:
> Kristen Carlson Accardi wrote:
>> Hi,
>> This series of patches enables Aggressive Link Power Management for AHCI 
>> devices, as documented in the AHCI spec.  On my laptop (a Lenovo X60), this
>> saves me a full watt of power.  On other systems, reported power savings
>> range from .5-1.5 Watts.  It has been tested by the kind folks at #powertop
>> with similar results.  Please give it a try and let me know what you think.
> 
> I'm not sure about this.  We need better PM framework to support
> powersaving in other controllers and some ahcis don't save much when
> only link power management is used, they need to be turned off

A better PM framework would definitely be nice :)


> completely && I don't think scsi sysfs is the right place to export this
> interface.

That's about the only place we have right now.

	Jeff



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