Re: [linux-pm] Linux Power Management Mini-Summit -- Ottawa -- July 22, 2008

[Pavel Machek <pavel@suse.cz>]

On Fri 2008-07-18 04:50:00, Gautham R Shenoy wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 17, 2008 at 05:27:32PM -0400, Len Brown wrote:
> > We'll be in The Rideau Suite in Les-Suites
> > Tuesday July 22nd 8:30-18:30.
> > 
> > Thanks to HP for sponsoring
> > lunch at 12:30 as well as snacks at 10:00 and 15:30.
> > We'll wing it for dinner.
> > 
> > On linux-pm (sorry, on sabbatical I've been
> > bad about keeping up on email) I've seen
> > intent to attend from:
> > 
> > Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
> > Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>
> > Dipankar Sarma <dipankar@in.ibm.com>
> > Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl>
> > "Woodruff, Richard" <r-woodruff2@ti.com>
> > Vaidyanathan Srinivasan <svaidy@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
> > Matt Domsch <Matt_Domsch@dell.com>
> > Jarod Wilson <jwilson@redhat.com>
> > Tim Bird <tim.bird@am.sony.com>
> > Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>
> > Hiroyuki Machida <Hiroyuki.Mach@gmail.com>
> > 
> Hi Len,
> I would like to attend the pm-mini summit if there's a slot available. I
> am interested in discussing:
> 
> a) the improvements to idle load balancing
> algorithm on multi-node multi-core systems, for better power savings.
> 
> b) Use of some kind of light-weight CPU-Hotplug for power-management
> on server systems.

Step one, fix cpu hotplug not to eat more power than idle cpu...?

I wonder, how can cpu hotplug help, relative to inteligent scheduler?
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