[linux-pm] [PATCH] cpuidle: avoid singing capacitors

Andi Kleen andi at firstfloor.org
Mon Mar 3 15:09:38 PST 2008


> But, with this patch:
> - we are penalizing good hardware and making them less power efficient
> to match the bad ones.

The question is how much it would be penalized. Most likely the penalty 
is very little. I would agree with Pierre's reasoning for enabling 
it by default: distributions will enable it anyways and it's better
to have the same defaults in the mainline kernel as with distros.

It might be worth researching a good default value though. Perhaps
it can be a lot shorter than the current one, lessing the penalty
even more?

-Andi


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