Re: v2.6.26-rc7: Negative powertop values

From: Arjan van de Ven
Date: Tue Jul 08 2008 - 09:53:09 EST


On Sun, 6 Jul 2008 21:48:45 +0200
Pavel Machek <pavel@xxxxxxx> 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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