Re: [PATCH] tracing, perf: add more power related events

["Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@xxxxxxx>]

On Tuesday, September 28, 2010, Arjan van de Ven wrote:
>   On 9/28/2010 2:22 PM, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
> > On Tuesday, September 28, 2010, Jean Pihet wrote:
> >> Hi,
> > Hi,
> >
> >> Here is what I am proposing, in reply to all your comments:
> >>
> >> 1) rename the events to match Thomas's proposal:
> >>     power:power_cpu_cstate
> >>     power:power_cpu_pstate
> >>     power:power_cpu_sstate
> > If that sstate thing is going to mean "suspend", then please drop it.
> > "Suspend" is not a state, let alone a CPU state.  It is a procedure by which
> > the (entire) system is put into a sleep state (that is not confined to CPUs).
> 
> there are also non-suspend S states, like S0i1 and S0i3 (supported in 
> the current Intel "Moorestown" platform)
> 
> so it's slightly more complex than "just" suspend :)

That's exactly why I used the conditional above. :-)
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