Re: v2.6.26-rc7: Negative powertop values

[Arjan van de Ven]

Pavel Machek wrote:
> On Tue 2008-07-08 06:52:51, Arjan van de Ven wrote:
> > 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
>
> What can happen there? So BIOS decides C4 may no longer be cool idea
> because we have AC power now, but that does not mean C4 stops working,
> right?

or it decides that your voltage regulator needs to operate in a certain mode and the voltage for C4 is no longer
available. or .. or ...

> How is changing allowed C-states list supposed to work, anyway? I
> mean, we may be in one of those on other CPU when BIOS decides to
> change the list...

you get an interrupt to notify you of the change ;-)

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