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From: Matthew Garrett <mjg59@srcf.ucam.org>
To: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, lenb@kernel.org, mingo@elte.hu,
	akpm@linux-foundation.org, peterz@infradead.org,
	yanmin_zhang@linux.intel.com, torvalds@linux-foundation.org,
	jens.axboe@oracle.com
Subject: Re: PATCH] cpuidle: A new variant of the menu governor to boost IO performance
Date: Sat, 12 Sep 2009 12:39:39 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090912113939.GA7119@srcf.ucam.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090912052647.3b6dcb78@infradead.org>

On Sat, Sep 12, 2009 at 05:26:47AM +0200, Arjan van de Ven wrote:
> On Fri, 11 Sep 2009 23:03:09 +0100
> Matthew Garrett <mjg59@srcf.ucam.org> wrote:
> 
> > When you say that a bit more power was used, is that instantaneous
> > power draw or total power consumption over the run of the benchmark?
> > I'd have expected that completing it 50% faster and then going idle
> > would be a win overall.
> 
> I meant power, not total energy :-)
> 
> in terms of energy it's a win if you only do a fixed amount of work...

Ok, so not really a downside. Not entirely relatedly, we've also seen io 
throughput issues related to P-states - using ondemand, we get reduced 
throughput until the number of clients becomes high enough to push the 
system into a higher P state. Is this something you've been able to 
measure?

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

  reply	other threads:[~2009-09-12 11:39 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-09-11 15:40 PATCH] cpuidle: A new variant of the menu governor to boost IO performance Arjan van de Ven
2009-09-11 16:37 ` Jens Axboe
2009-09-11 19:16 ` John Stoffel
2009-09-11 19:51   ` Arjan van de Ven
2009-09-14  3:30   ` Zhang, Yanmin
2009-09-11 22:03 ` Matthew Garrett
2009-09-12  3:26   ` Arjan van de Ven
2009-09-12 11:39     ` Matthew Garrett [this message]
2009-09-12 14:04       ` Arjan van de Ven
2009-09-13 23:30 ` Andrew Morton
2009-09-14  2:45   ` Arjan van de Ven
2009-09-14  7:43 ` Andrew Morton
2009-09-14  8:04   ` Tejun Heo
2009-09-14  8:15     ` Peter Zijlstra
2009-09-14  9:09       ` Tejun Heo
2009-09-14 20:31   ` Arjan van de Ven

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