On Tue, Dec 08, 2015 at 01:22:14PM +0000, Zanoni, Paulo R wrote: > Em Ter, 2015-12-08 às 10:50 +0200, David Weinehall escreveu: > > Since the defaults for some external power management related > > settings > > prevents us from testing our power management functionality properly, > > we have to work around it. Currently this is done from the individual > > test cases, but this is sub-optimal. This patch moves the PM-related > > workarounds into a separate library, and adds some code to restore > > the > > previous settings for the SATA link power management while at it. > > > > This patch should be seen as a RFC; there might be other workarounds > > for external issues that should be moved into the library, and if > > those > > workarounds aren't related to power management it might be better to > > choose a different name for the library. > > I didn't deeply look the implementation, but you have my Acked-by on > the idea. > > You may also consider adding a function to just run "sudo powertop -- > auto-tune" in addition to the other things, but you can't undo this > later. > > But in the end, it all depends on your machine. A bad machine will > never reach the deepest expected PC states. That's the problem when > automating things... > > Since you're interested in PM, you may also want to look at: > http://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/66392/ > maybe there's some code there that you may want to take.
Thanks! At the very least it seems like a very useful tool that I can use as an independent test to verify my own tests against. :) Kind regards, David _______________________________________________ Intel-gfx mailing list Intel-gfx@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/intel-gfx
