Aggressive Link Power Management
Aggressive Link Power Management (ALPM) is a power management protocol for Advanced Host Controller Interface-compliant (AHCI) Serial ATA (SATA) devices, such as hard disk drives and solid-state drives.[1]
Description
When enabled via the AHCI controller, this allows the SATA host bus adapter to enter a low-power state during periods of inactivity, thus saving energy. The drawback to this is increased periodic latency as the drive must be re-activated and brought back on-line before it can be used, and this will often appear as a delay to the end-user.
States
There are three states:[2]
- Active
- Low Power with two internal states Partial and Slumber. Partial has a maximum return latency of 10 microseconds while slumber has a maximum latency of 10 milliseconds. The states can be initiated by Host (HIPM), Device (DIPM) or both. Hot swapping is disabled.
- Device Sleep with a maximum return latency of 20 milliseconds unless otherwise specified in Identify Data Log
These can be selected by the SATA AHCI driver, usually via a configuration option, or by the OS Power Options. Windows Vista and later allows the tweaking of AHCI LPM modes through a registry hack.[3] Hot swapping is disabled.
See also
- Energy Star
- Green computing
- Active State Power Management (ASPM)
References
- ↑ "Serial ATA AHCI: Specification, Rev. 1.3". Intel. http://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/io/serial-ata/serial-ata-ahci-spec-rev1_3.html. Retrieved 31 October 2012.
- ↑ "Designing Energy Efficient SATA Devices". Intel. http://www.intel.com/content/dam/doc/reference-guide/sata-devices-implementation-recommendations.pdf. Retrieved 31 October 2012.
- ↑ "Add AHCI Link Power Management to Power Options in Windows". https://www.tenforums.com/tutorials/72971-add-ahci-link-power-management-power-options-windows.html. Retrieved 4 January 2023.
External links
- Aggressive Link Power Management - Red Hat
- "Designing Energy Efficient SATA Devices". http://www.intel.com/content/dam/doc/reference-guide/sata-devices-implementation-recommendations.pdf. - Intel
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