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From: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
To: Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>,
	Linux Kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Subject: Re: sched domains oddness.
Date: Fri, 31 Oct 2008 13:17:21 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20081031171721.GA8837@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20081031170928.GB10468@linux-os.sc.intel.com>

On Fri, Oct 31, 2008 at 10:09:29AM -0700, Suresh Siddha wrote:

 > > looks like someone is triggering rebuild_sched_domains(), is something
 > > poking cpusetfs files or flipping between sched_mc settings?
 > 
 > I remember someone mentioning that some distro's started setting
 > sched_mc_power_savings to '1' by default during boot. On a dual-core
 > laptop, this will not give any advantage.
 > 
 > I have to fix the code to not export this tunable, when we have only
 > socket in the system.
 > 
 > Dave, Is your distro also setting this tunable blindly during boot :(

(13:15:25:davej@vaio:~)$ cat /sys/devices/system/cpu/sched_mc_power_savings
0

So no, unless something set it to 1, and then back to 0.

A grep of etc shows up nothing in initscripts.  Does hal or something
play with this?

	Dave

-- 
http://www.codemonkey.org.uk

  reply	other threads:[~2008-10-31 17:17 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-10-31 16:24 sched domains oddness Dave Jones
2008-10-31 16:51 ` Peter Zijlstra
2008-10-31 17:09   ` Suresh Siddha
2008-10-31 17:17     ` Dave Jones [this message]
2008-10-31 17:37       ` Dave Jones
2008-10-31 17:58         ` Suresh Siddha
2008-10-31 19:08     ` Dave Jones
2008-10-31 17:19   ` Dave Jones

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