Re: [v6 PATCH 0/7]: cpuidle/x86/POWER: Cleanup idle power management code in x86, cleanup drivers/cpuidle/cpuidle.c and introduce cpuidle to POWER.

2009-09-25 Thread Arun R Bharadwaj
* Arun R Bharadwaj [2009-09-22 16:55:27]: Hi, I have done the following experiments and have posted the results below. Average of 5 iterations: --

Re: [v6 PATCH 0/7]: cpuidle/x86/POWER: Cleanup idle power management code in x86, cleanup drivers/cpuidle/cpuidle.c and introduce cpuidle to POWER.

2009-09-25 Thread Arjan van de Ven
On Fri, 25 Sep 2009 10:54:24 +0200 Peter Zijlstra wrote: > On Fri, 2009-09-25 at 12:36 +0530, Vaidyanathan Srinivasan wrote: > > * Arjan van de Ven [2009-09-24 14:22:28]: > > > > > On Thu, 24 Sep 2009 10:42:41 +0530 > > > Arun R Bharadwaj wrote: > > > > > > > * Arun R Bharadwaj [2009-09-22 >

Re: [v6 PATCH 0/7]: cpuidle/x86/POWER: Cleanup idle power management code in x86, cleanup drivers/cpuidle/cpuidle.c and introduce cpuidle to POWER.

2009-09-25 Thread Peter Zijlstra
On Fri, 2009-09-25 at 12:36 +0530, Vaidyanathan Srinivasan wrote: > * Arjan van de Ven [2009-09-24 14:22:28]: > > > On Thu, 24 Sep 2009 10:42:41 +0530 > > Arun R Bharadwaj wrote: > > > > > * Arun R Bharadwaj [2009-09-22 16:55:27]: > > > > > > Hi Len, (or other acpi folks), > > > > > > I had

Re: [v6 PATCH 0/7]: cpuidle/x86/POWER: Cleanup idle power management code in x86, cleanup drivers/cpuidle/cpuidle.c and introduce cpuidle to POWER.

2009-09-25 Thread Balbir Singh
On Thu, Sep 24, 2009 at 5:52 PM, Arjan van de Ven wrote: > On Thu, 24 Sep 2009 10:42:41 +0530 > Arun R Bharadwaj wrote: > >> * Arun R Bharadwaj [2009-09-22 16:55:27]: >> >> Hi Len, (or other acpi folks), >> >> I had a question regarding ACPI-cpuidle interaction in the current >> implementation.

Re: [v6 PATCH 0/7]: cpuidle/x86/POWER: Cleanup idle power management code in x86, cleanup drivers/cpuidle/cpuidle.c and introduce cpuidle to POWER.

2009-09-25 Thread Vaidyanathan Srinivasan
* Arjan van de Ven [2009-09-24 14:22:28]: > On Thu, 24 Sep 2009 10:42:41 +0530 > Arun R Bharadwaj wrote: > > > * Arun R Bharadwaj [2009-09-22 16:55:27]: > > > > Hi Len, (or other acpi folks), > > > > I had a question regarding ACPI-cpuidle interaction in the current > > implementation. > >

Re: [v6 PATCH 0/7]: cpuidle/x86/POWER: Cleanup idle power management code in x86, cleanup drivers/cpuidle/cpuidle.c and introduce cpuidle to POWER.

2009-09-24 Thread Arjan van de Ven
On Thu, 24 Sep 2009 10:42:41 +0530 Arun R Bharadwaj wrote: > * Arun R Bharadwaj [2009-09-22 16:55:27]: > > Hi Len, (or other acpi folks), > > I had a question regarding ACPI-cpuidle interaction in the current > implementation. > > Currently, every cpu (i.e. acpi_processor) registers to cpuidl

Re: [v6 PATCH 0/7]: cpuidle/x86/POWER: Cleanup idle power management code in x86, cleanup drivers/cpuidle/cpuidle.c and introduce cpuidle to POWER.

2009-09-23 Thread Arun R Bharadwaj
* Arun R Bharadwaj [2009-09-22 16:55:27]: Hi Len, (or other acpi folks), I had a question regarding ACPI-cpuidle interaction in the current implementation. Currently, every cpu (i.e. acpi_processor) registers to cpuidle as a cpuidle_device. So every cpu has to go through the process of setting

[v6 PATCH 0/7]: cpuidle/x86/POWER: Cleanup idle power management code in x86, cleanup drivers/cpuidle/cpuidle.c and introduce cpuidle to POWER.

2009-09-22 Thread Arun R Bharadwaj
Hi, This patchset introduces cpuidle infrastructure to POWER, prototyping for pSeries, and also does a major refactoring of current x86 idle power management and a cleanup of cpuidle infrastructure. My earlier iterations can be found at: v5 --> http://lkml.org/lkml/2009/9/22/26 v4 --> http://lkm