Techniques for entering a low power state
AssigneeIntel Corporation
InventorsLEENA K. PUTHIYEDATH, ANIL AGGARWAL, QINGDA LU, RAHUL SETH, MICHAEL C. WALZ
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Abstract
Various embodiments are generally directed to an apparatus, method and other techniques for initiating a transition into a lower power state, determining that a device process prevents a platform processing device from completing the transition to the lower power state and interrupting a processing component from an intermediate power state in order to process the process prior to execution of a defined event.
Claims25
An apparatus, comprising:
- a platform processing device comprising a processor component and a power management component, the power management component to initiate a transition into a lower power state and determine that a device process prevents the platform processing device from completing the transition to the lower power state, the power management component to interrupt the processor component from an intermediate power state in order to process the device process prior to execution of a defined event.
An article comprising a computer-readable storage medium containing a plurality of instructions that when executed enable a processor to:
- initiate a transition into a lower power state;
- determine that a device process prevents a system from completing the transition to the lower power state;
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- interrupt the processor from an intermediate power state in order to process the device process prior to execution of a defined event.
A controller, comprising logic at least a portion of which is in hardware, the logic to:
- initiate a transition into the lower power state and determine that a device process prevents the platform processing device from completing the transition to the lower power state, interrupt the processor component from an intermediate power state in order to process the device process prior to execution of a defined event.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.