Date: Tue, 8 Jul 2008 06:52:51 -0700
From: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
To: Pavel Machek <pavel@suse.cz>
Cc: Vegard Nossum <vegard.nossum@gmail.com>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>,
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Subject: Re: v2.6.26-rc7: Negative powertop values
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On Sun, 6 Jul 2008 21:48:45 +0200
Pavel Machek <pavel@suse.cz> wrote:

> > 
> > [I assume you know that doing a software unplug you burn more power
> > than by leaving the cpu idle]
> 
> We should really fix that one day...

yeah but it's incredibly hard to get right (in the light of the bios
constantly changing what our allowed C-states are)... and the best case
is equal to just being idle.

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