From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Andi Kleen Subject: Re: proposed sysfs semantic change. Date: Thu, 12 Aug 2010 18:35:54 +0200 Message-ID: <871va3eql1.fsf@basil.nowhere.org> References: <20100811215443.GA28343@redhat.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Return-path: In-Reply-To: <20100811215443.GA28343@redhat.com> (Dave Jones's message of "Wed, 11 Aug 2010 17:54:43 -0400") Sender: cpufreq-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: Dave Jones Cc: cpufreq@vger.kernel.org Dave Jones writes: > Users with dual/quad core systems can currently set individual cores to > have different governors (and drivers!), which doesn't really make a lot > of sense. Why not? Imagine a system that is partitioned using cpusets or cgroups for different sockets and the partitions runs different workloads. I could well imagine using different governours (= policies) for those different sockets. Different drivers probably doesn't make much sense though. -Andi -- ak@linux.intel.com -- Speaking for myself only.