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From: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
To: Matthew Garrett <mjg59@srcf.ucam.org>
Cc: Kyungmin Park <kmpark@infradead.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	Ankita Garg <ankita@in.ibm.com>,
	linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org, linux-mm@kvack.org,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-pm@lists.linux-foundation.org, svaidy@linux.vnet.ibm.com,
	thomas.abraham@linaro.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 00/10] mm: Linux VM Infrastructure to support Memory Power Management
Date: Fri, 10 Jun 2011 10:19:39 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110610171939.GE2230@linux.vnet.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20110610170535.GC25774@srcf.ucam.org>

On Fri, Jun 10, 2011 at 06:05:35PM +0100, Matthew Garrett wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 10, 2011 at 09:55:29AM -0700, Paul E. McKenney wrote:
> > On Fri, Jun 10, 2011 at 04:59:54PM +0100, Matthew Garrett wrote:
> > > For the server case, the low hanging fruit would seem to be 
> > > finer-grained self-refresh. At best we seem to be able to do that on a 
> > > per-CPU socket basis right now. The difference between active and 
> > > self-refresh would seem to be much larger than the difference between 
> > > self-refresh and powered down.
> > 
> > By "finer-grained self-refresh" you mean turning off refresh for banks
> > of memory that are not being used, right?  If so, this is supported by
> > the memory-regions support provided, at least assuming that the regions
> > can be aligned with the self-refresh boundaries.
> 
> I mean at the hardware level. As far as I know, the best we can do at 
> the moment is to put an entire node into self refresh when the CPU hits 
> package C6.

But this depends on the type of system and CPU family, right?  If you
can say, which hardware are you thinking of?  (I am thinking of ARM.)

							Thanx, Paul

  reply	other threads:[~2011-06-10 17:20 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 70+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-05-27 12:31 [PATCH 00/10] mm: Linux VM Infrastructure to support Memory Power Management Ankita Garg
2011-05-27 12:31 ` [PATCH 01/10] mm: Introduce the memory regions data structure Ankita Garg
2011-05-27 15:30   ` Dave Hansen
2011-05-27 18:20     ` Vaidyanathan Srinivasan
2011-05-27 21:31       ` Dave Hansen
2011-05-29  8:16         ` Ankita Garg
2011-05-31 17:34           ` Dave Hansen
2011-06-02  8:54             ` Ankita Garg
2011-05-27 12:31 ` [PATCH 02/10] mm: Helper routines Ankita Garg
2011-05-27 12:31 ` [PATCH 03/10] mm: Init zones inside memory regions Ankita Garg
2011-05-27 12:31 ` [PATCH 04/10] mm: Refer to zones from " Ankita Garg
2011-05-27 12:31 ` [PATCH 05/10] mm: Create zonelists Ankita Garg
2011-05-27 12:31 ` [PATCH 06/10] mm: Verify zonelists Ankita Garg
2011-05-27 12:31 ` [PATCH 07/10] mm: Modify vmstat Ankita Garg
2011-05-27 12:31 ` [PATCH 08/10] mm: Modify vmscan Ankita Garg
2011-05-27 12:31 ` [PATCH 09/10] mm: Reflect memory region changes in zoneinfo Ankita Garg
2011-05-27 12:31 ` [PATCH 10/10] mm: Create memory regions at boot-up Ankita Garg
2011-05-28 14:39   ` Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD
2011-05-28  7:56 ` [PATCH 00/10] mm: Linux VM Infrastructure to support Memory Power Management Andrew Morton
2011-05-28 13:16   ` Ankita Garg
2011-06-09 18:52   ` Paul E. McKenney
2011-06-10  0:51     ` Kyungmin Park
2011-06-10 15:11       ` Paul E. McKenney
2011-06-10 15:59         ` Matthew Garrett
2011-06-10 16:55           ` Paul E. McKenney
2011-06-10 17:05             ` Matthew Garrett
2011-06-10 17:19               ` Paul E. McKenney [this message]
2011-06-10 17:23                 ` Matthew Garrett
2011-06-10 17:52                   ` Paul E. McKenney
2011-06-10 18:08                     ` Matthew Garrett
2011-06-10 18:47                       ` Paul E. McKenney
2011-06-10 19:23                         ` Matthew Garrett
2011-06-10 19:37                           ` Paul E. McKenney
2011-06-10 20:12                             ` Matthew Garrett
2011-06-11  3:02                             ` Arjan van de Ven
2011-06-11 17:06                               ` Paul E. McKenney
2011-06-11 17:26                                 ` Arjan van de Ven
2011-06-12 23:07                                   ` Paul E. McKenney
2011-06-13 14:28                                     ` Arjan van de Ven
2011-06-13 23:04                                       ` Paul E. McKenney
2011-06-14  8:51                               ` Ankita Garg
2011-06-15 16:53                               ` Ankita Garg
2011-06-18  4:08                                 ` Arjan van de Ven
2011-06-10 17:33                 ` Ankita Garg
2011-06-11 17:08                   ` Paul E. McKenney
2011-07-12  5:31   ` amit kachhap
2011-06-13  4:47 ` KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
2011-06-16  4:20   ` Ankita Garg
2011-06-16  9:12     ` KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
2011-06-17 15:28       ` Ankita Garg
2011-06-19 23:53         ` KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
2011-06-16 16:04     ` Dave Hansen
2011-06-17 10:03       ` Ankita Garg
2011-06-29 13:00 ` Ankita Garg
2011-06-29 17:06   ` Dave Hansen
2011-06-29 17:42     ` Ankita Garg
2011-06-29 17:59       ` Dave Hansen
2011-06-29 18:17         ` Vaidyanathan Srinivasan
2011-06-30  4:37           ` Ankita Garg
2011-06-29 20:11         ` Andi Kleen
2011-06-30  5:11           ` Ankita Garg
2011-06-29 18:07     ` Vaidyanathan Srinivasan
2011-07-06  8:45   ` Pekka Enberg
2011-07-06  9:01     ` Pekka Enberg
2011-07-06 16:50       ` Vaidyanathan Srinivasan
2011-07-06 16:41     ` Vaidyanathan Srinivasan
2011-07-06 20:20     ` david
2011-07-07  4:54       ` Ankita Garg
2011-07-07 18:00       ` Pekka Enberg
2011-07-08  1:32         ` david

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