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Linux 6.16 Lands Proper Power Management Fix For Code That Caused Power Regression


Linux 6.15 mistakenly shipped with a nasty power regression for some systems, such as those relying on the 'nosmt' option to disable Simultaneous Multi-Threading / Hyper Threading

Michael Larabel is the principal author of Phoronix.com and founded the site in 2004 with a focus on enriching the Linux hardware experience. Michael has written more than 20,000 articles covering the state of Linux hardware support, Linux performance, graphics drivers, and other topics. Michael is also the lead developer of the Phoronix Test Suite, Phoromatic, and OpenBenchmarking.org automated benchmarking software.

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