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Message-ID: <20080708065251.1d7d681f@linux.intel.com>
Date: Tue, 8 Jul 2008 06:52:51 -0700
From: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@...ux.intel.com>
To: Pavel Machek <pavel@...e.cz>
Cc: Vegard Nossum <vegard.nossum@...il.com>,
Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>,
Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@...llo.nl>,
Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: v2.6.26-rc7: Negative powertop values
On Sun, 6 Jul 2008 21:48:45 +0200
Pavel Machek <pavel@...e.cz> wrote:
> >
> > [I assume you know that doing a software unplug you burn more power
> > than by leaving the cpu idle]
>
> We should really fix that one day...
yeah but it's incredibly hard to get right (in the light of the bios
constantly changing what our allowed C-states are)... and the best case
is equal to just being idle.
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