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From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
To: Daniel Lezcano <daniel.lezcano@linaro.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>,
	Nicolas Pitre <nicolas.pitre@linaro.org>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, mingo@elte.hu, rjw@rjwysocki.net,
	linux-pm@vger.kernel.org, alex.shi@linaro.org,
	vincent.guittot@linaro.org, morten.rasmussen@arm.com
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCHC 3/3] sched/fair: use the idle state info to choose the idlest cpu
Date: Fri, 18 Apr 2014 10:09:51 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20140418080951.GB14280@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <534FED53.2030804@linaro.org>


* Daniel Lezcano <daniel.lezcano@linaro.org> wrote:

> On 04/17/2014 04:47 PM, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> >On Thu, Apr 17, 2014 at 03:53:32PM +0200, Daniel Lezcano wrote:
> >>Concerning the policy, I would suggest to create an entry in
> >>/proc/sys/kernel/sched_power, where a couple of values could be performance
> >>- power saving (0 / 1).
> >
> >Ingo wanted a sched_balance_policy file with 3 values:
> >   "performance, power, auto"
> >
> >Where the auto thing switches between them, initially based off of
> >having AC or not.
> 
> oh, good. Thanks !

Also, 'auto' should be the default, because the kernel doing TRT is 
really what users want.

Userspace can sill tweak it all and make it all user-space controlled, 
by flipping between 'performance' and 'power'. (and those modes are 
also helpful for development and debugging.)

Thanks,

	Ingo

  reply	other threads:[~2014-04-18  8:09 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 47+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-03-28 12:29 [RFC PATCHC 0/3] sched/idle : find the idlest cpu with cpuidle info Daniel Lezcano
2014-03-28 12:29 ` [RFC PATCHC 1/3] cpuidle: encapsulate power info in a separate structure Daniel Lezcano
2014-03-28 18:17   ` Nicolas Pitre
2014-03-28 20:42     ` Daniel Lezcano
2014-03-29  0:00       ` Nicolas Pitre
2014-03-28 12:29 ` [RFC PATCHC 2/3] idle: store the idle state the cpu is Daniel Lezcano
2014-04-15 12:43   ` Peter Zijlstra
2014-04-15 12:44     ` Peter Zijlstra
2014-04-15 14:17       ` Daniel Lezcano
2014-04-15 14:33         ` Peter Zijlstra
2014-04-15 14:39           ` Daniel Lezcano
2014-03-28 12:29 ` [RFC PATCHC 3/3] sched/fair: use the idle state info to choose the idlest cpu Daniel Lezcano
2014-04-02  3:05   ` Nicolas Pitre
2014-04-04 11:57     ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2014-04-04 16:56       ` Nicolas Pitre
2014-04-05  2:01         ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2014-04-17 13:53     ` Daniel Lezcano
2014-04-17 14:47       ` Peter Zijlstra
2014-04-17 15:03         ` Daniel Lezcano
2014-04-18  8:09           ` Ingo Molnar [this message]
2014-04-18  8:36             ` Daniel Lezcano
2014-04-17 15:53       ` Nicolas Pitre
2014-04-17 16:05         ` Daniel Lezcano
2014-04-17 16:21           ` Nicolas Pitre
2014-04-18  9:38             ` Peter Zijlstra
2014-04-18 12:13               ` Daniel Lezcano
2014-04-18 12:53                 ` Peter Zijlstra
2014-04-18 13:04                   ` Daniel Lezcano
2014-04-18 16:00                     ` Nicolas Pitre
2014-04-15 13:03   ` Peter Zijlstra
2014-03-31 13:52 ` [RFC PATCHC 0/3] sched/idle : find the idlest cpu with cpuidle info Vincent Guittot
2014-03-31 15:55   ` Daniel Lezcano
2014-04-01  7:16     ` Vincent Guittot
2014-04-01  7:43       ` Daniel Lezcano
2014-04-01  9:05         ` Vincent Guittot
2014-04-15 13:13           ` Peter Zijlstra
2014-04-01 23:01 ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2014-04-02  3:14   ` Nicolas Pitre
2014-04-04 11:43     ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2014-04-15 13:17       ` Peter Zijlstra
2014-04-15 13:25       ` Peter Zijlstra
2014-04-15 15:27         ` Nicolas Pitre
2014-04-15 15:33         ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2014-04-02  8:26   ` Daniel Lezcano
2014-04-04 11:23     ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2014-04-04  6:29 ` Len Brown
2014-04-04  8:16   ` Daniel Lezcano

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