Re: Powersaving Patch for NetworkManager

[Alexander Sack <asac ubuntu com>]

On Tue, Nov 25, 2008 at 01:38:12PM +0100, Jan Kantert wrote:
> Hi,
>
> according to powertop Network Manager wakes up my cpu about once every
> two seconds. Thats does not sound much but on an idle desktop with 10
> wake ups per seconds thats 5%. I wanted my laptop's cpu to stay longer
> in sleepstates so I wrote a little patch (against trunk) to replace
> g_timeout_add with g_timeout_add_seconds (where possible), which uses
> more rough granularity. This helps to aggregate timeouts and will
> statistically wake up the cpu less frequently.

Sounds good. Curious, if you have collected data on how much of a
powersaving win this patch brings?

 - Alexander