Re: Hard Disk consumes lots of power in s2idle
From: Srinivas Pandruvada <srinivas.pandruvada@linux.intel.com>
Date: 2020-02-19 18:36:08
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From: Srinivas Pandruvada <srinivas.pandruvada@linux.intel.com>
Date: 2020-02-19 18:36:08
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Hi Kai, On Wed, 2020-02-19 at 22:22 +0800, Kai-Heng Feng wrote:
Hi Srinivas, Your previous work to support DEVSLP works well on SATA SSDs, so I am asking you the issue I am facing: Once a laptop has a HDD installed, the power consumption during S2Idle increases ~0.4W, which is quite a lot. However, HDDs don't seem to support DEVSLP, so I wonder if you know to do proper power management for HDDs?
What is the default here cat /sys/power/mem_sleep s2idle or deep? Please follow debug steps here: https://01.org/blogs/qwang59/2018/how-achieve-s0ix-states-linux We need to check whether you get any PC10 residency or not. Thanks, Srinivas
Kai-Heng