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From: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
To: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Youquan Song <youquan.song@intel.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, mingo@elte.hu, tglx@linutronix.de,
	hpa@zytor.com, akpm@linux-foundation.org, stable@vger.kernel.org,
	suresh.b.siddha@intel.com, len.brown@intel.com,
	anhua.xu@intel.com, chaohong.guo@intel.com,
	Youquan Song <youquan.song@linux.intel.com>,
	Paul Turner <pjt@google.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86,sched: Fix sched_smt_power_savings totally broken
Date: Mon, 09 Jan 2012 06:13:09 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4F0AF5F5.9080403@linux.intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1326104915.2442.53.camel@twins>

On 1/9/2012 2:28 AM, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> On Mon, 2012-01-09 at 11:06 +0100, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
>> I'm >< close to committing a patch removing all the power_saving
>> magic from the scheduler. 
> 
> Unless someone steps up that says they care about this crap and are
> willing to clean it up this goes in...
> 

there is one legitimate choice to make in the scheduler, which is a real
honest preference:
the spread out versus "sort left" preference.

that doesn't need 15 knobs, that needs one.
I can totally buy that this might be easiest done by ripping out all
existing stuff, and then doing something relatively simple
(say, in the, "which CPU to run at" logic, a minor bias)



  parent reply	other threads:[~2012-01-09 14:13 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 36+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-01-09  8:56 [PATCH] x86,sched: Fix sched_smt_power_savings totally broken Youquan Song
2012-01-09 10:06 ` Peter Zijlstra
2012-01-09 10:28   ` Peter Zijlstra
2012-01-09 10:30     ` Peter Zijlstra
2012-01-09 11:00     ` Vaidyanathan Srinivasan
2012-01-09 14:35       ` Peter Zijlstra
2012-01-09 16:03         ` Vaidyanathan Srinivasan
2012-01-09 16:13           ` Peter Zijlstra
2012-01-09 17:05             ` Vaidyanathan Srinivasan
2012-01-09 14:13     ` Arjan van de Ven [this message]
2012-01-10  0:14   ` Youquan Song
2012-01-09 11:05     ` Peter Zijlstra
2012-01-10  5:58       ` Youquan Song
2012-01-09 23:52         ` Suresh Siddha
2012-01-10  9:18           ` Ingo Molnar
2012-01-10 14:32             ` Arjan van de Ven
2012-01-10 14:41               ` Peter Zijlstra
2012-01-10 14:54                 ` Arjan van de Ven
2012-01-10 15:32               ` Vincent Guittot
2012-01-10 16:49               ` Vaidyanathan Srinivasan
2012-01-10 19:41               ` Ingo Molnar
2012-01-10 19:44                 ` Ingo Molnar
2012-01-10 16:54           ` Youquan Song
2012-01-10 16:51             ` Vaidyanathan Srinivasan
2012-01-10 19:01               ` Suresh Siddha
2012-01-11  3:52                 ` Vaidyanathan Srinivasan
2012-01-11 17:37                   ` Youquan Song
2012-01-10 16:44       ` Vaidyanathan Srinivasan
2012-01-09 11:12     ` Peter Zijlstra
2012-01-09 14:29       ` Vincent Guittot
2012-01-09 14:46         ` Peter Zijlstra
2012-01-10  2:12           ` Indan Zupancic
2012-01-10  9:26             ` Peter Zijlstra
2012-01-10  1:54         ` Suresh Siddha
2012-01-10  8:08           ` Vincent Guittot
2012-01-09 15:37 ` Greg KH

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