On Tue, Jun 22, 2010 at 9:31 AM, Matthew Garrett <m...@redhat.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 21, 2010 at 01:39:07PM -0700, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote:
>> Last I reviewed CONFIG_PCIEASPM won't buy you *anything* other than
>> debugging knobs. With it you can force all devices to enable ASPM
>> completely on or disable it. Both of which I think are not really
>> useful and instead should be done in userspace given that if you are
>> testing ASPM you likely want to test only one one device and its
>> respective root complex, not all at the same time.
>
> It buys you enabling of ASPM on devices that the BIOS hasn't configured,
> which is legitimate and useful.

Sure, I agree with that, but it also will enable ASPM for *all*
devices which have the capability which IMHO is a terrible idea for
users when all they want to do is enable ASPM for one device. Instead
I recommend users to enable ASPM for their devices selectively and
from userspace.

  Luis
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