On Friday, May 31, 2019 6:19:52 PM CEST Josh Poimboeuf wrote:
> On Fri, May 31, 2019 at 05:41:18PM +0200, Jiri Kosina wrote:
> > On Fri, 31 May 2019, Josh Poimboeuf wrote:
> > 
> > > The only question I'd have is if we have data on the power savings 
> > > difference between hlt and mwait.  mwait seems to wake up on a lot of 
> > > different conditions which might negate its deeper sleep state.
> > 
> > hlt wakes up on basically the same set of events, but has the 
> > auto-restarting semantics on some of them (especially SMM). So the wakeup 
> > frequency itself shouldn't really contribute to power consumption 
> > difference; it's the C-state that mwait allows CPU to enter.
> 
> Ok.  I reluctantly surrender :-)  For your v4:
> 
>   Reviewed-by: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoim...@redhat.com>
> 
> It works as a short term fix, but it's fragile, and it does feel like
> we're just adding more duct tape, as Andy said.

OK, the v4 queued up then, thanks!



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