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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.

  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
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2006-06-30  0:31 [Patch] sched: group CPU power setup cleanup Siddha, Suresh B

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