From: "Siddha, Suresh B" <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Cc: Paul Jackson <pj@sgi.com>,
"Siddha, Suresh B" <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au,
mingo@redhat.com, apw@shadowen.org
Subject: Re: [patch] sched: group CPU power setup cleanup
Date: Wed, 16 Aug 2006 11:03:57 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060816110357.B7305@unix-os.sc.intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20060815214718.00814767.akpm@osdl.org>; from akpm@osdl.org on Tue, Aug 15, 2006 at 09:47:18PM -0700
On Tue, Aug 15, 2006 at 09:47:18PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > > + * cpu_power indicates the computing power of each sched group. This is
> > > + * used for distributing the load between different sched groups
> > > + * in a sched domain.
> >
> > Thanks for explaining what cpu_power means.
> >
>
> Hope not. To me, "computing power" means megaflops/sec, or Dhrystones
> (don't ask) or whatever. If that's what "cpu_power" is referring to then
> the name is hopelessly ambiguous with peak joules/sec and a big renaming is
> due.
It refers to group's processing power. Perhaps "horsepower" is better term.
thanks,
suresh
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-08-16 18:21 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-08-16 0:55 [patch] sched: group CPU power setup cleanup Siddha, Suresh B
2006-08-16 4:24 ` Paul Jackson
2006-08-16 4:47 ` Andrew Morton
2006-08-16 5:53 ` Paul Jackson
2006-08-16 18:03 ` Siddha, Suresh B [this message]
2006-08-17 17:20 ` Paul Jackson
2006-08-17 18:03 ` Siddha, Suresh B
2006-08-17 19:18 ` Paul Jackson
2006-08-17 23:29 ` Ian Stirling
2006-08-17 23:35 ` Paul Jackson
2006-08-17 23:56 ` Peter Williams
2006-08-18 4:15 ` Paul Mackerras
2006-08-16 17:45 ` Siddha, Suresh B
2006-08-18 21:23 ` [patch] sched: generic sched_group cpu power setup Siddha, Suresh B
2006-08-18 22:29 ` Paul Jackson
2006-08-18 22:42 ` Siddha, Suresh B
2006-08-19 0:09 ` Paul Jackson
2006-08-21 22:19 ` Siddha, Suresh B
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2006-06-30 0:31 [Patch] sched: group CPU power setup cleanup Siddha, Suresh B
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