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Date: Wed, 25 Sep 2013 18:21:29 -0700
From: Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
To: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@...ux.intel.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@...stfloor.org>,
"Srivatsa S. Bhat" <srivatsa.bhat@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
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Subject: Re: [Results] [RFC PATCH v4 00/40] mm: Memory Power Management
On Wed, 25 Sep 2013 18:15:21 -0700 Arjan van de Ven <arjan@...ux.intel.com> wrote:
> On 9/25/2013 4:47 PM, Andi Kleen wrote:
> >> Also, the changelogs don't appear to discuss one obvious downside: the
> >> latency incurred in bringing a bank out of one of the low-power states
> >> and back into full operation. Please do discuss and quantify that to
> >> the best of your knowledge.
> >
> > On Sandy Bridge the memry wakeup overhead is really small. It's on by default
> > in most setups today.
>
> btw note that those kind of memory power savings are content-preserving,
> so likely a whole chunk of these patches is not actually needed on SNB
> (or anything else Intel sells or sold)
(head spinning a bit). Could you please expand on this rather a lot?
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