Re: [RFC PATCH v2 0/2] Saving power by cpu evacuation sched_max_capacity_pct=n

Vaidyanathan Srinivasan
2009-05-14T15:43:53Z

* Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org> [2009-05-14 17:06:32]:

> > I think 'scheduler throttling' is good so that we avoid the term 'CPU
> > throttling' or core throttling. I had named this cpu evacuation or
> > core evacuation just to avoid confusion with hardware throttling.
>
> Evacuation sounds good, although shouldn't it be package or
> socket evacuation?

Lets start with 'core evacuation' since that seems to be the lowest
granularity on a threaded system. We certainly want the framework to
provide socket/package and node evacuation on much larger systems.

--Vaidy