Re: [patch 3/3] Enable Aggressive Link Power management for AHCIcontrollers.

From: Arjan van de Ven
Date: Tue Jun 12 2007 - 00:01:33 EST


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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