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Message-ID: <466E1A32.90306@linux.intel.com>
Date: Mon, 11 Jun 2007 20:59:46 -0700
From: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@...ux.intel.com>
To: Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@....eng.br>
CC: Jeff Garzik <jeff@...zik.org>,
Dagfinn Ilmari Mannsåker
<ilmari@...ari.org>,
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,
htejun@...il.com
Subject: Re: [patch 3/3] Enable Aggressive Link Power management for AHCI
controllers.
Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote:
> On Mon, 11 Jun 2007, Jeff Garzik wrote:
>>>> on/off doesn't really make sense if the question is "do you favor power
>>>> or do you favor performance".......
>
> Actually, it does if you think of it as "do you need hotplug right now or
> not?".
that's a temporary shortcoming; even with these power savings you can
do hotplug as long as you're willing to poll for it at a reasonable
interval and are willing to wait the time between polls for a hotplug
to take effect..
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