Re: sched: deep power-saving states

From: Arjan van de Ven
Date: Wed Oct 22 2008 - 16:12:33 EST


On Wed, 22 Oct 2008 22:05:25 +0200
Peter Zijlstra <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> >
> > in fact you already have this *exactly* today; this isn't future
> > technology.
>
> Interesting, what knob do I turn to get idle=poll dynamically?

you ask PMQOS for a 0 usec latency, and you just get idle=poll behavior;
you can do this from the kernel, or, as root, from userland.


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