Re: [PATCH 00/10] mm: Linux VM Infrastructure to support MemoryPower Management

From: Matthew Garrett
Date: Fri Jun 10 2011 - 13:24:09 EST


On Fri, Jun 10, 2011 at 10:19:39AM -0700, Paul E. McKenney wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 10, 2011 at 06:05:35PM +0100, Matthew Garrett wrote:
> > 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.)

I haven't seen too many ARM servers with 256GB of RAM :) I'm mostly
looking at this from an x86 perspective.

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