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From: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
To: Mark Lord <lkml@rtr.ca>
Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>,
	"Pallipadi, Venkatesh" <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com>,
	abelay@novell.com, lenb@kernel.org, mlord@pobox.com, rjw@sisk.pl,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: + restore-missing-sysfs-max_cstate-attr.patch added to -mm tree
Date: Sat, 1 Dec 2007 02:17:40 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20071201021740.2e66b918.akpm@linux-foundation.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4750D180.6080001@rtr.ca>

On Fri, 30 Nov 2007 22:14:08 -0500 Mark Lord <lkml@rtr.ca> wrote:

> > latency. If your app cant take any latency, you should set those... and
> > the side effect is that the kernel will not do long-latency C-states or
> > P-state transitions..
> ..
> 
> I don't mind the cpufreq changing (actually, I want it to drop in cpugfreq
> to save power and keep the fan off), but the C-states just kill this app.

semi-OT: I was finding that disabling cpufreq altogether on the Vaio speeds up
`quilt push 1000' by a lot - around 30% iirc.

There do seem to be some unsophisticated decisions in there and we're losing quite
a bit of performance as a result.

  parent reply	other threads:[~2007-12-01 10:18 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 58+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-11-30 21:53 + restore-missing-sysfs-max_cstate-attr.patch added to -mm tree akpm
     [not found] ` <924EFEDD5F540B4284297C4DC59F3DEE2FAE6A@orsmsx423.amr.corp.intel.com>
2007-11-30 22:20   ` Andrew Morton
2007-11-30 22:37     ` Pallipadi, Venkatesh
2007-11-30 22:37       ` Pallipadi, Venkatesh
2007-12-01  2:52       ` Mark Lord
2007-12-01  3:02         ` Arjan van de Ven
2007-12-01  3:14           ` Mark Lord
2007-12-01  3:18             ` Arjan van de Ven
2007-12-01  3:31               ` Mark Lord
2007-12-01  3:44                 ` Mark Lord
2007-12-01  3:48                   ` Mark Lord
2007-12-01  4:02                   ` Mark Lord
2007-12-01  4:31                     ` Mark Lord
2007-12-01 23:43                   ` 20000+ wake-ups/second in 2.6.24. Bug? Mark Lord
2007-12-01 23:46                     ` Arjan van de Ven
2007-12-01 23:55                       ` Mark Lord
2007-12-02  0:13                         ` Arjan van de Ven
2007-12-02  1:10                           ` Andres Freund
2007-12-02  0:20                         ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2008-02-04 17:29                           ` Mark Lord
2008-02-04 17:50                             ` Arjan van de Ven
2008-02-04 19:17                               ` Mark Lord
2007-12-02 14:41                     ` Adrian Bunk
2007-12-02 14:59                       ` Mark Lord
2007-12-02 15:12                         ` Adrian Bunk
2007-12-02 15:45                           ` Mark Lord
2007-12-02 15:45                           ` Mark Lord
2007-12-02 15:49                           ` Mark Lord
2008-01-02 23:41                 ` + restore-missing-sysfs-max_cstate-attr.patch added to -mm tree Mark Lord
2008-01-03  0:06                   ` Pallipadi, Venkatesh
2008-01-03  0:06                     ` Pallipadi, Venkatesh
2008-01-03  0:51                     ` Andrew Morton
2008-01-03  0:51                       ` Andrew Morton
2008-01-03  1:12                       ` Pallipadi, Venkatesh
2008-01-03  1:12                         ` Pallipadi, Venkatesh
2008-01-03  4:25                         ` Mark Lord
2008-01-03  4:18                     ` Mark Lord
2008-01-04  2:16                       ` Venki Pallipadi
2008-01-04  3:16                         ` Mark Lord
2008-01-04 21:52                           ` Mark Lord
2008-01-04 21:59                             ` Pallipadi, Venkatesh
2008-01-04 21:59                               ` Pallipadi, Venkatesh
2008-01-05 16:27                               ` Mark Lord
2008-01-06 21:34                         ` Mark Lord
2008-01-07  7:18                           ` Andrew Morton
2008-01-07 14:07                             ` Arjan van de Ven
2008-01-07 15:07                               ` Mark Lord
2008-01-07 14:18                             ` Pallipadi, Venkatesh
2008-01-07 14:18                               ` Pallipadi, Venkatesh
2008-01-07 15:06                             ` Mark Lord
2008-01-07 19:12                               ` Len Brown
2008-01-07 21:33                                 ` Mark Lord
2008-01-07 22:43                                   ` Len Brown
2007-12-01 10:17             ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2007-12-01 16:30               ` Arjan van de Ven
2007-12-05 11:17       ` Pavel Machek
2007-12-07 21:38         ` Pallipadi, Venkatesh
2007-12-07 21:38           ` Pallipadi, Venkatesh

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