Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756391AbZFHOmI (ORCPT ); Mon, 8 Jun 2009 10:42:08 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752484AbZFHOl5 (ORCPT ); Mon, 8 Jun 2009 10:41:57 -0400 Received: from atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz ([195.113.26.193]:41125 "EHLO atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752025AbZFHOl5 (ORCPT ); Mon, 8 Jun 2009 10:41:57 -0400 Date: Mon, 8 Jun 2009 07:56:24 +0200 From: Pavel Machek To: Linus Torvalds Cc: "Michael S. Zick" , Duane Griffin , Linux Kernel Mailing List , Harald Welte Subject: Re: Linux 2.6.30-rc8 [also: VIA Support] Message-ID: <20090608055623.GA1444@ucw.cz> References: <200906041121.30845.lkml@morethan.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.18 (2008-05-17) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 931 Lines: 23 On Thu 2009-06-04 10:07:37, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > > Side note: is it more stable if you disable the VIA speedstep thing > (whatever it's called (ok, google tells me it's called "TwinTurbo" and > "Advanced PowerSaver")? > > Features like that easily put a huge stress on power regulators etc, if > they result in sudden changes in current draw. Underspecced capacitors > etc can cause CPU "brown-outs", which in turn can easily cause total > failure. If you try that, do idle=poll too. Hides class of bugs related to deep idle states. -- (english) http://www.livejournal.com/~pavelmachek (cesky, pictures) http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~pavel/picture/horses/blog.html -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/