From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Peter Zijlstra Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/3] sched: idle: Add sched balance option Date: Sun, 27 Apr 2014 21:39:28 +0200 Message-ID: <20140427193928.GC17778@laptop.programming.kicks-ass.net> References: <1398342291-16322-1-git-send-email-daniel.lezcano@linaro.org> <15044031.LGKXdkz8J7@vostro.rjw.lan> <20140426105537.GI26782@laptop.programming.kicks-ass.net> <2356289.56GzXmbvd0@vostro.rjw.lan> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Received: from bombadil.infradead.org ([198.137.202.9]:38206 "EHLO bombadil.infradead.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751533AbaD0Tjl (ORCPT ); Sun, 27 Apr 2014 15:39:41 -0400 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <2356289.56GzXmbvd0@vostro.rjw.lan> Sender: linux-pm-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-pm@vger.kernel.org To: "Rafael J. Wysocki" Cc: Amit Kucheria , Daniel Lezcano , Ingo Molnar , Lists linaro-kernel , Linux PM list , Linux Kernel Mailing List On Sun, Apr 27, 2014 at 03:54:32PM +0200, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote: > On Saturday, April 26, 2014 12:55:37 PM Peter Zijlstra wrote: > > On Sat, Apr 26, 2014 at 02:18:58AM +0200, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote: > > > And why do we have to do things that we hate it when they are done by others? > > > > Well, I'm assuming that these things that I dislike are actually useful > > and liked by the majority (me not fitting that is nothing new). If > > everybody hates these things, WTF are they still the default on pretty > > much every OS out there, Windows and Mac OS do the same screen dimming > > things when they loose AC last time I touched one of them. > > Well, vendors have certain battery life targets for their products (you > know, something for the marketing people to brag about) and tend to be > quite aggressive about doing whatever they can to reach them. Well, I was just hoping the industry wasn't _that_ rotten and there was actual a majority of people liking this. > We don't have such targets for the mainline kernel, though, do we? ;-) No, for sure :-)