From: Olof Johansson Date: Thu, 5 Oct 2006 04:41:41 +0000 (-0500) Subject: [POWERPC] powerpc: Enable DEEPNAP power savings mode on 970MP X-Git-Tag: v2.6.20-rc1~34^2~40^2~8^2~193 X-Git-Url: http://git.openpandora.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=5b43d20a4d12d94f258bbbca5fa4df8ff8a17848;p=pandora-kernel.git [POWERPC] powerpc: Enable DEEPNAP power savings mode on 970MP Without this patch, on an idle system I get: cpu-power-0:21.638 cpu-power-1:27.102 cpu-power-2:29.343 cpu-power-3:25.784 Total: 103.8W With this patch: cpu-power-0:11.730 cpu-power-1:17.185 cpu-power-2:18.547 cpu-power-3:17.528 Total: 65.0W If I lower HZ to 100, I can get it as low as: cpu-power-0:10.938 cpu-power-1:16.021 cpu-power-2:17.245 cpu-power-3:16.145 Total: 60.2W Another (older) Quad G5 went from 54W to 39W at HZ=250. Coming back out of Deep Nap takes 40-70 cycles longer than coming back from just Nap (which already takes quite a while). I don't think it'll be a performance issue (interrupt latency on an idle system), but in case someone does measurements feel free to report them. Signed-off-by: Olof Johansson Acked-by: Michael Buesch Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras --- Reading git-diff-tree failed