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From: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
To: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>
Cc: Salman Qazi <sqazi@google.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-pm@lists.linux-foundation.org,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	Michael Rubin <mrubin@google.com>,
	Taliver Heath <taliver@google.com>
Subject: Re: RFC: A proposal for power capping through forced idle in the Linux  Kernel
Date: Tue, 22 Dec 2009 20:48:24 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1261511304.4937.116.camel@laptop> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20091214161922.6f252492@infradead.org>

On Mon, 2009-12-14 at 16:19 -0800, Arjan van de Ven wrote:

> I like the general idea, I have one request (that I didn't see quite in
> your explanation): Please make sure that all cpus in the system do
> their idle injection at the same time, so that memory can go into power
> saving mode as well during this time etc etc...

And then you're going to ask that it scales too, right? :-)

Gang-scheduling is inherently non scalable, be it for idle time or not.


  parent reply	other threads:[~2009-12-22 19:49 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-12-14 23:11 RFC: A proposal for power capping through forced idle in the Linux Kernel Salman Qazi
2009-12-14 23:21 ` Andi Kleen
2009-12-14 23:51   ` tytso
2009-12-15  0:42     ` Salman Qazi
2009-12-22 19:48     ` Peter Zijlstra
2009-12-15  0:19 ` Arjan van de Ven
2009-12-15  0:36   ` Salman Qazi
2009-12-15  1:06     ` Arjan van de Ven
2009-12-15 20:15       ` Salman Qazi
2009-12-17 11:01         ` Arjan van de Ven
2009-12-15 10:29     ` Vaidyanathan Srinivasan
2009-12-15 11:50       ` Vaidyanathan Srinivasan
2009-12-15 21:00         ` Salman Qazi
2009-12-15 20:50       ` Salman Qazi
2009-12-22 19:48   ` Peter Zijlstra [this message]
2009-12-22 19:57     ` Arjan van de Ven
2009-12-18 17:04 ` Pavel Machek
2009-12-22 21:10   ` Salman Qazi
2009-12-23  9:49     ` Pavel Machek
2009-12-21  8:57 ` Pavel Machek
2009-12-22 21:15   ` Salman Qazi
2009-12-23  9:52     ` Pavel Machek

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