From: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
To: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Dominik Brodowski <linux@dominikbrodowski.net>,
Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>,
Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>,
Dmitry Torokhov <dtor@mail.ru>
Subject: Re: A few questions and issues with dynticks, NOHZ and powertop
Date: Sun, 4 Apr 2010 21:22:22 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100405042222.GD2644@linux.vnet.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4BB95C85.80205@linux.intel.com>
On Sun, Apr 04, 2010 at 08:44:05PM -0700, Arjan van de Ven wrote:
> >And you did mention offlining some CPUs above. The folloiwng patch
> >(from Lai Jiangshan) is needed to handle this case.
>
> btw on x86... don't offline CPUs if you want to save power.. it doesn't.
> (at least not during idle.. and when you're busy it might save power,
> but it won't save you energy normally)
Hmmm... The fact that offlining CPUs doesn't save power could form
the basis of an interesting rationalization for my having ignored
offlined CPUs in my original patch, I suppose. ;-)
So the proper approach is to affinity everything away from the CPUs
in question so that they stay in dyntick-idle mode? I must confess
that I find this quite counter-intuitive -- and I suspect that I am
not the only one who would expect offlined CPUs to drop to the
lowest possible power consumption.
Thanx, Paul
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-04-05 4:22 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 30+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-04-03 22:33 A few questions and issues with dynticks, NOHZ and powertop Dominik Brodowski
2010-04-03 23:53 ` Dmitry Torokhov
2010-04-04 10:35 ` Dominik Brodowski
2010-04-05 20:54 ` Dmitry Torokhov
2010-04-04 10:47 ` Dominik Brodowski
2010-04-05 3:42 ` Arjan van de Ven
2010-04-05 20:41 ` Dominik Brodowski
2010-04-05 20:52 ` Dmitry Torokhov
2010-04-04 15:17 ` Alan Stern
2010-04-04 16:39 ` Dominik Brodowski
2010-04-04 20:47 ` Paul E. McKenney
2010-04-04 23:37 ` Paul E. McKenney
2010-04-05 3:44 ` Arjan van de Ven
2010-04-05 4:22 ` Paul E. McKenney [this message]
2010-04-05 14:40 ` Arjan van de Ven
2010-04-05 15:14 ` Paul E. McKenney
2010-04-05 16:07 ` Arjan van de Ven
2010-04-05 16:22 ` Paul E. McKenney
2010-04-05 16:23 ` Arjan van de Ven
2010-04-05 16:40 ` Paul E. McKenney
2010-04-05 18:44 ` david
2010-04-05 19:48 ` Arjan van de Ven
2010-04-05 20:34 ` Paul E. McKenney
2010-04-05 21:03 ` Dominik Brodowski
2010-04-05 21:38 ` Paul E. McKenney
2010-04-05 22:11 ` Dominik Brodowski
2010-04-05 22:31 ` Paul E. McKenney
2010-04-06 20:45 ` Dominik Brodowski
2010-04-06 20:59 ` Paul E. McKenney
2010-04-08 19:59 ` [RFC PATCH] nohz/sched: disable ilb on !mc_capable() Dominik Brodowski
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