Re: [RFC v1] Tunable sched_mc_power_savings=n

[David Collier-Brown <davecb@sun.com>]

Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org> said on Fri, 27 Jun 2008 00:38:53 +0200:
>>Peter Zijlstra wrote:
>>>>And your workload manager could just nice processes. It should probably
>>>>do that anyways to tell ondemand you don't need full frequency.
>>>
>>>Except that I want my nice 19 distcc processes to utilize as much cpu as
>>>possible, but just not bother any other stuff I might be doing...
>>
>>They already won't do that if you run ondemand and cpufreq. It won't
>>crank up the frequency for niced processes.


Tim Connors then wrote:
> Shouldn't there be a powernice, just as there is an ionice and a nice?
Hmmn, how about:

User Commands                                             nice(1)

NAME
     nice - invoke a command with an altered  priority

SYNOPSIS
     /usr/bin/nice [-increment | -n increment]  [-s|-i|-e|-p] command  [argu-
     ment...]

DESCRIPTION
     The nice utility invokes command, requesting that it be  run
     with a different  priority.  If -i is specified, the priority
     of (disk) I/O is modified. If -e is specified, ethernet (or
     other networking) priority is changed. If -p is specified, power
     usage priority is changed and if  -s is specified, or none 
     of -1, -e or -p  is specified, then system scheduling priority
     is modified...

--dave
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