From: Ian Stirling <ian.stirling@mauve.plus.com>
To: Paul Jackson <pj@sgi.com>
Cc: "Siddha, Suresh B" <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com>,
akpm@osdl.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au, mingo@redhat.com, apw@shadowen.org
Subject: Re: [patch] sched: group CPU power setup cleanup
Date: Fri, 18 Aug 2006 00:29:12 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <44E4FBC8.1040607@mauve.plus.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20060817121804.e140f19e.pj@sgi.com>
Paul Jackson wrote:
> Suresh wrote:
>> Let me resist the temptation and not go into the definition of horsepower
>> here. You can refer any dictionary.
>
> Good point <grin>.
>
> Horsepower is a measure of power, of energy over time, such as the
> rate of providing or using electrical or mechanical energy.
>
> So, with your suggestion of 'horsepower', are you saying that cpu_power
> is a metric of such electrical or mechanical energy -- the peak or
> average watts of the electricity consumed by the CPUs in a group?
And is white_power, the energy output of a redneck on a step machine?
Power has assorted meanings over and above the J/s one.
I'd suggest 'computing_power' might be less ambiguous.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-08-17 23:29 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-08-16 0:55 [patch] sched: group CPU power setup cleanup Siddha, Suresh B
2006-08-16 4:24 ` Paul Jackson
2006-08-16 4:47 ` Andrew Morton
2006-08-16 5:53 ` Paul Jackson
2006-08-16 18:03 ` Siddha, Suresh B
2006-08-17 17:20 ` Paul Jackson
2006-08-17 18:03 ` Siddha, Suresh B
2006-08-17 19:18 ` Paul Jackson
2006-08-17 23:29 ` Ian Stirling [this message]
2006-08-17 23:35 ` Paul Jackson
2006-08-17 23:56 ` Peter Williams
2006-08-18 4:15 ` Paul Mackerras
2006-08-16 17:45 ` Siddha, Suresh B
2006-08-18 21:23 ` [patch] sched: generic sched_group cpu power setup Siddha, Suresh B
2006-08-18 22:29 ` Paul Jackson
2006-08-18 22:42 ` Siddha, Suresh B
2006-08-19 0:09 ` Paul Jackson
2006-08-21 22:19 ` Siddha, Suresh B
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2006-06-30 0:31 [Patch] sched: group CPU power setup cleanup Siddha, Suresh B
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