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Date: Thu, 14 May 2009 17:06:32 +0200
From: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
To: Vaidyanathan Srinivasan <svaidy@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
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Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH v2 0/2] Saving power by cpu evacuation sched_max_capacity_pct=n
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> 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?

-Andi

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