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Date: Thu, 14 May 2009 21:13:16 +0530
From: Vaidyanathan Srinivasan <svaidy@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
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Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH v2 0/2] Saving power by cpu evacuation
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* Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org> [2009-05-14 17:06:32]:

> > 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?

Lets start with 'core evacuation' since that seems to be the lowest
granularity on a threaded system.  We certainly want the framework to
provide socket/package and node evacuation on much larger systems.

--Vaidy