Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [PATCH v7 0/8] Tunable sched_mc_power_savings=n | From | Mike Galbraith <> | Date | Thu, 08 Jan 2009 09:06:48 +0100 |
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On Wed, 2009-01-07 at 21:05 +0530, Vaidyanathan Srinivasan wrote:
> sched_mc=2 depends on NEWIDLE but the wakeup biasing part will be > enabled even without this flag. The power savings will be marginally > better than sched_mc=1 without NEWIDLE. But the end user can have > that setup if they want to.
That implies to me that there should exist a flag SD_WAKEUP_BIAS or whatnot. All settings should be visible. Currently, sched_mc > 0 turns on NEWIDLE, which is visible, but 2 turns on this 'invisible to the ultimate low-level control interface' thing.
-Mike
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