Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 20 Aug 2012 06:26:21 -0700 | From | Arjan van de Ven <> | Subject | Re: [discussion]sched: a rough proposal to enable power saving in scheduler |
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On 8/20/2012 1:06 AM, Ingo Molnar wrote: > > > There's also cases where the kernel has insufficient information > from the hardware and from the admin about the preferred > characteristics/policy of the system - a tweakable fallback knob > might be provided for that sad case. > > The point is, that knob is not the policy setting and it's not > the main mechanism. It's a fallback.
if we call the knob "powersave", it better save power... if we call it "group together" or "spread out".. no problem with that.
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