| Subject | Re: [discussion]sched: a rough proposal to enable power saving in scheduler | From | Peter Zijlstra <> | Date | Wed, 15 Aug 2012 16:55:16 +0200 |
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On Wed, 2012-08-15 at 20:24 +0600, Rakib Mullick wrote: > How do you plan to test this power saving scheme? Using powertop? Or, > is there any other tools?
We should start out simple enough that we can validate it by looking at task placement by hand, eg. 4 tasks on a dual socket quad-core, should only keep one socket awake.
We can also add an power aware evaluator to Linsched (another one of those things that needs getting sorted).
And yeah, someone running with a power meter is of course king.
_BUT_ we shouldn't go off the wall with power meters as that very quickly gets very specific to the system being measured.
We should really keep this thing as simple as possible while still providing some benefit for all various architectures without tons of per arch knobs and knowhow.
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