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From: Matthew Garrett <mjg59@srcf.ucam.org>
To: Chris Friesen <chris.friesen@genband.com>
Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>,
	preeti <preeti@linux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>,
	Alex Shi <alex.shi@intel.com>,
	Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com>,
	vincent.guittot@linaro.org, svaidy@linux.vnet.ibm.com,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
	"linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
	Paul Turner <pjt@google.com>
Subject: Re: [discussion]sched: a rough proposal to enable power saving in scheduler
Date: Fri, 17 Aug 2012 20:50:34 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120817195033.GA15589@srcf.ucam.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <502E9F45.6030606@genband.com>

On Fri, Aug 17, 2012 at 01:45:09PM -0600, Chris Friesen wrote:
> On 08/17/2012 12:47 PM, Matthew Garrett wrote:

> The datasheet for the Xeon E5 (my variant at least) says it doesn't
> do C7 so never powers down the LLC.  However, as you said earlier
> once you can put the socket into C6 which saves about 30W compared
> to C1E.
> 
> So as far as I can see with this CPU at least you would benefit from
> shutting down a whole socket when possible.

Having any active cores on the system prevents all packages from going 
into PC6 or deeper. What I'm not clear on is whether less deep package C 
states are also blocked.

-- 
Matthew Garrett | mjg59@srcf.ucam.org

  reply	other threads:[~2012-08-17 19:51 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 90+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-08-13 12:21 [discussion]sched: a rough proposal to enable power saving in scheduler Alex Shi
2012-08-14  7:35 ` Alex Shi
2012-08-15  8:23   ` Peter Zijlstra
2012-08-15 11:05 ` Peter Zijlstra
2012-08-15 13:15   ` Borislav Petkov
2012-08-15 14:43     ` Peter Zijlstra
2012-08-16  3:22       ` Alex Shi
2012-08-16  3:09     ` Alex Shi
2012-08-15 13:45   ` Arjan van de Ven
2012-08-15 14:39     ` Peter Zijlstra
2012-08-15 14:43       ` Arjan van de Ven
2012-08-15 15:04         ` Peter Zijlstra
2012-08-15 17:59           ` Arjan van de Ven
2012-08-20  8:06             ` Ingo Molnar
2012-08-20  8:26               ` Peter Zijlstra
2012-08-20 13:26               ` Arjan van de Ven
2012-08-20 18:16               ` Matthew Garrett
2012-08-21  9:42                 ` Ingo Molnar
2012-08-21 11:39                   ` Matthew Garrett
2012-08-21 15:19                     ` Ingo Molnar
2012-08-21 15:21                       ` Arjan van de Ven
2012-08-21 15:28                       ` Matthew Garrett
2012-08-21 15:59                         ` Ingo Molnar
2012-08-21 16:13                           ` Matthew Garrett
2012-08-21 18:23                             ` Ingo Molnar
2012-08-21 18:34                               ` Matthew Garrett
2012-08-22  9:10                                 ` Ingo Molnar
2012-08-22 11:35                                   ` Matthew Garrett
2012-08-23  8:19                                   ` Alex Shi
2012-08-21 18:52                               ` Alan Cox
2012-08-22  9:03                                 ` Ingo Molnar
2012-08-22 11:00                                   ` Alan Cox
2012-08-22 11:33                                     ` Ingo Molnar
2012-08-22 12:58                                       ` Alan Cox
2012-08-21 16:02                       ` Alan Cox
2012-08-22  5:41                         ` Mike Galbraith
2012-08-22 13:02                           ` Arjan van de Ven
2012-08-22 13:09                             ` Mike Galbraith
2012-08-22 13:21                             ` Matthew Garrett
2012-08-22 13:23                               ` Arjan van de Ven
2012-08-16  1:14         ` Rik van Riel
2012-08-16  1:17           ` Arjan van de Ven
2012-08-16  1:21           ` Arjan van de Ven
2012-08-15 14:19   ` Arjan van de Ven
2012-08-15 14:44     ` Peter Zijlstra
2012-08-15 14:47       ` Thomas Gleixner
2012-08-15 16:23   ` Matthew Garrett
2012-08-15 16:34   ` Matthew Garrett
2012-08-15 18:02     ` Arjan van de Ven
2012-08-17  8:59       ` Paul Turner
2012-08-16  3:07   ` Alex Shi
2012-08-16  6:53   ` preeti
2012-08-16  9:58     ` Alex Shi
2012-08-16 12:45     ` Shilimkar, Santosh
2012-08-16 14:01     ` Arjan van de Ven
2012-08-16 18:45       ` Rik van Riel
2012-08-16 19:20         ` Arjan van de Ven
2012-08-17  1:29       ` Alex Shi
2012-08-17 18:41       ` Matthew Garrett
2012-08-17 18:44         ` Arjan van de Ven
2012-08-17 18:47           ` Matthew Garrett
2012-08-17 19:45             ` Chris Friesen
2012-08-17 19:50               ` Matthew Garrett [this message]
2012-08-17 20:16                 ` Chris Friesen
2012-08-18 14:33                   ` Luming Yu
2012-08-18 14:52                     ` Arjan van de Ven
2012-08-16 14:31   ` Morten Rasmussen
2012-08-19 10:12     ` Juri Lelli
2012-08-17  8:43   ` Paul Turner
2012-08-20 15:55     ` Vincent Guittot
2012-08-20 15:36   ` Vincent Guittot
2012-08-21  0:58     ` Alex Shi
2012-08-21 11:05       ` Vincent Guittot
2012-08-15 14:24 ` Rakib Mullick
2012-08-15 14:55   ` Peter Zijlstra
2012-08-15 22:58     ` Rakib Mullick
2012-08-16  5:26     ` Alex Shi
2012-08-16  4:57   ` Alex Shi
2012-08-16  8:05     ` Rakib Mullick
2012-08-15 16:19 ` Matthew Garrett
2012-08-16  5:03   ` Alex Shi
2012-08-16  5:31     ` Matthew Garrett
2012-08-16  5:39       ` Alex Shi
2012-08-16  5:45         ` Matthew Garrett
2012-08-16 13:57     ` Arjan van de Ven
2012-08-20 15:47       ` Christoph Lameter
2012-08-20 15:52         ` Matthew Garrett
2012-08-20 19:22           ` Christoph Lameter
2012-08-20 15:47     ` Vincent Guittot
2012-08-21  1:05       ` Alex Shi

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