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From: Matthew Garrett <mjg59@srcf.ucam.org>
To: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>,
	dipankar@in.ibm.com, balbir@linux.vnet.ibm.com,
	Linux Kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Suresh B Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com>,
	Venkatesh Pallipadi <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>, Vatsa <vatsa@linux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	Gautham R Shenoy <ego@in.ibm.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC v1] Tunable sched_mc_power_savings=n
Date: Sat, 28 Jun 2008 13:22:37 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080628122237.GA22099@srcf.ucam.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <48649F84.4090501@firstfloor.org>

On Fri, Jun 27, 2008 at 10:06:28AM +0200, Andi Kleen wrote:

> Ok distcc is a special case, but it doesn't apply to a lot of other
> processes (do you really want your CPU to crank up for "updatedb" or
> beagle or some backup job for example?)

If something's CPU-bound, then you almost certainly want to speed the 
CPU up. There's no power advantage to leaving it at a low frequency. I'd 
be surprised if things like beagle or updatedb are CPU-bound, though.

-- 
Matthew Garrett | mjg59@srcf.ucam.org

  parent reply	other threads:[~2008-06-28 12:26 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 36+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-06-25 19:11 [RFC v1] Tunable sched_mc_power_savings=n Vaidyanathan Srinivasan
2008-06-26 13:49 ` Andi Kleen
2008-06-26 15:01   ` Dipankar Sarma
2008-06-26 18:31     ` Vaidyanathan Srinivasan
2008-06-26 15:01   ` Balbir Singh
2008-06-26 18:08     ` Andi Kleen
2008-06-26 18:52       ` Vaidyanathan Srinivasan
2008-06-26 19:37         ` David Collier-Brown
2008-06-27  6:50           ` Vaidyanathan Srinivasan
2008-06-26 20:17         ` Andi Kleen
2008-06-26 21:00           ` Dipankar Sarma
2008-06-26 21:37             ` Andi Kleen
2008-06-26 21:43               ` Peter Zijlstra
2008-06-26 22:38                 ` Andi Kleen
2008-06-27  6:24                   ` Vaidyanathan Srinivasan
2008-06-27  7:51                   ` Peter Zijlstra
2008-06-27  8:06                     ` Andi Kleen
2008-06-28 11:35                       ` Tim Connors
2008-06-28 11:55                         ` Andi Kleen
2008-06-28 12:22                       ` Matthew Garrett [this message]
2008-06-28 12:36                         ` Andi Kleen
2008-06-28 12:53                           ` Matthew Garrett
2008-06-28 11:22                   ` Tim Connors
2008-06-29 18:02                     ` David Collier-Brown
2008-06-30  4:57                       ` Vaidyanathan Srinivasan
2008-06-30  5:55                         ` Tim Connors
2008-06-30 14:18                         ` David Collier-Brown
2008-06-30 14:31                           ` Andi Kleen
2008-06-27  4:54               ` Dipankar Sarma
2008-06-27  8:03                 ` Andi Kleen
2008-06-30 16:10                   ` Dipankar Sarma
2008-06-27  7:19           ` Vaidyanathan Srinivasan
2008-06-27  4:15       ` Balbir Singh
2008-06-27  8:08 ` KOSAKI Motohiro
2008-06-27  8:50   ` Vaidyanathan Srinivasan
2008-06-27 12:54   ` David Collier-Brown

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