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Message-Id: <200904281048.15663.florian@openwrt.org>
Date: Tue, 28 Apr 2009 10:48:14 +0200
From: Florian Fainelli <florian@...nwrt.org>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc: Ayaz Abdulla <aabdulla@...dia.com>, manfred@...orfullife.com,
davem@...emloft.net, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] forcedeth: add clock gating feature
Hi,
Le Monday 27 April 2009 21:24:47 Andrew Morton, vous avez écrit :
> On Mon, 27 Apr 2009 08:31:35 -0400
>
> Ayaz Abdulla <aabdulla@...dia.com> wrote:
> > This patch adds support for clock gating the tx/rx engines which is
> > available on certain chipsets.
>
> What are the effects of this patch? Improved power management? Fixes
> a user-visible bug? Something else?
Clock gating is a design technique which improves power consumption by only
clocking the necessary parts of the chip.
Ayaz do you have any figures on how this patch reduces consumption ?
--
Best regards, Florian Fainelli
Email : florian@...nwrt.org
http://openwrt.org
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