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SubjectRe: [discussion]sched: a rough proposal to enable power saving in scheduler
On 8/21/2012 10:41 PM, Mike Galbraith wrote:
> On Tue, 2012-08-21 at 17:02 +0100, Alan Cox wrote:
>
>> I'd like to see actual numbers and evidence on a wide range of workloads
>> the spread/don't spread thing is even measurable given that you've also
>> got to factor in effects like completing faster and turning everything
>> off. I'd *really* like to see such evidence on a laptop,which is your
>> one cited case it might work.
>
> For my dinky dual core laptop, I suspect you're right, but for a more
> powerful laptop, I'd expect spread/don't to be noticeable.

yeah if you don't spread, you will waste some power.
but.. current linux behavior is to spread.
so we can only make it worse.


>
> Yeah, hard numbers would be nice to see.
>
> If I had a powerful laptop, I'd kill irq balancing, and all but periodic
> load balancing, and expect to see a positive result.

I'd expect to see a negative result ;-)



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