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Linux Patches Aim To Further Lower Intel Sierra Forest Idle Power Use
A set of patches are currently under review on the Linux kernel mailing list for helping to further lower idle power use for Xeon 6 Sierra Forest processors.
A set of patches are currently under review on the Linux kernel mailing list for helping to further lower idle power use for Xeon 6 Sierra Forest processors. Intel engineer Patryk Wlazlyn has a set of three patches to the "intel_idle" Linux driver for helping to ensure the Sierra Forest processors can hit their deepest C states while idle. Wlazlyn explains in the patch series: The current implementation for looking up the mwait hint for the deepest cstate depends on them to be continuous in range [0, NUM_SUBSTATES-1].
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