A future article on Phoronix.com by Michael Larabel looking at the latest Intel RC6 support as of 11 February. Difference between test runs is rebooting the kernel with i915.i915_enable_rc6= to values of 0, 1, 3, 5, and 7.
System Notes: Compiz was running on this system. This was running on battery power.
Processor: Intel Core i5-2520M @ 2.50GHz (4 Cores), Motherboard: HP 161C, Chipset: Intel 2nd Generation Core Family DRAM, Memory: 4096MB, Disk: 160GB INTEL SSDSA2M160, Graphics: Intel Sandybridge Mobile (GT2+) (1300MHz), Audio: IDT 92HD81B1X5, Network: Intel 82579LM Gigabit Connection + Intel Centrino Advanced-N 6205
OS: Ubuntu 12.04, Kernel: 3.3.0-rc2-intelrc6work+ (x86_64), Desktop: Unity 5.2.0, Display Server: X Server 1.11.3, Display Driver: intel 2.17.0, OpenGL: 3.0 Mesa 8.0-rc2, Compiler: GCC 4.6, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1600x900
Changed Graphics to Intel Sandybridge Mobile (GT2+).
System Notes: Compiz was running on this system. This was running on battery power.
Testing initiated at 11 February 2012 13:55 by user phoronix.
Processor: Intel Core i5-2520M @ 2.50GHz (4 Cores), Motherboard: HP 161C, Chipset: Intel 2nd Generation Core Family DRAM, Memory: 4096MB, Disk: 160GB INTEL SSDSA2M160, Graphics: Intel Sandybridge Mobile (GT2+) (1300MHz), Audio: IDT 92HD81B1X5, Network: Intel 82579LM Gigabit Connection + Intel Centrino Advanced-N 6205
OS: Ubuntu 12.04, Kernel: 3.3.0-rc2-intelrc6work+ (x86_64), Desktop: Unity 5.2.0, Display Server: X Server 1.11.3, Display Driver: intel 2.17.0, OpenGL: 3.0 Mesa 8.0-rc2, Compiler: GCC 4.6, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1600x900
System Notes: Compiz was running on this system. This was running on battery power.
Testing initiated at 11 February 2012 14:22 by user phoronix.
System Notes: Compiz was running on this system. This was running on battery power.
Testing initiated at 11 February 2012 15:00 by user phoronix.
System Notes: Compiz was running on this system. This was running on battery power.
Testing initiated at 11 February 2012 15:26 by user phoronix.
Processor: Intel Core i5-2520M @ 2.50GHz (4 Cores), Motherboard: HP 161C, Chipset: Intel 2nd Generation Core Family DRAM, Memory: 4096MB, Disk: 160GB INTEL SSDSA2M160, Graphics: Intel Sandybridge Mobile (GT2+), Audio: IDT 92HD81B1X5, Network: Intel 82579LM Gigabit Connection + Intel Centrino Advanced-N 6205
OS: Ubuntu 12.04, Kernel: 3.3.0-rc2-intelrc6work+ (x86_64), Desktop: Unity 5.2.0, Display Server: X Server 1.11.3, Display Driver: intel 2.17.0, OpenGL: 3.0 Mesa 8.0-rc2, Compiler: GCC 4.6, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1600x900
System Notes: Compiz was running on this system. This was running on battery power.
Testing initiated at 11 February 2012 17:39 by user phoronix.