From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751457AbaDZACh (ORCPT ); Fri, 25 Apr 2014 20:02:37 -0400 Received: from v094114.home.net.pl ([79.96.170.134]:59006 "HELO v094114.home.net.pl" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S1751048AbaDZACf (ORCPT ); Fri, 25 Apr 2014 20:02:35 -0400 From: "Rafael J. Wysocki" To: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Amit Kucheria , Daniel Lezcano , Ingo Molnar , Lists linaro-kernel , Linux PM list , Linux Kernel Mailing List Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/3] sched: idle: Add sched balance option Date: Sat, 26 Apr 2014 02:18:58 +0200 Message-ID: <15044031.LGKXdkz8J7@vostro.rjw.lan> User-Agent: KMail/4.11.5 (Linux/3.14.0-rc7+; KDE/4.11.5; x86_64; ; ) In-Reply-To: <20140425132055.GC11096@twins.programming.kicks-ass.net> References: <1398342291-16322-1-git-send-email-daniel.lezcano@linaro.org> <2713863.BLQTYQm2Oa@vostro.rjw.lan> <20140425132055.GC11096@twins.programming.kicks-ass.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Friday, April 25, 2014 03:20:55 PM Peter Zijlstra wrote: > On Fri, Apr 25, 2014 at 01:46:53PM +0200, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote: > > _trim_ emails!!! one of these days I'm going to write a bot to flame > your head of if there's excessive quoting. Words ... > > > > Well, so now the question is whether or not we relly want to always > > go to the "power" (or "energy efficiency" if you will) mode if the system > > is on battery. That arguably may not be a good thing even for energy > > efficiency depending on how exactly the modes are defined. > > Nobody is talking about always. But in general it seems a good enough > approach. Hell, many of the AC/BAT switches in todays power management > crap things are not always right. > > Do I want it to dim the LCD further when I unplug the laptop -- mostly > no, but still it does. And the most annoying one is that it reduces the > screen blank time to something near 5 seconds or so. > > Why would this be any different? And why do we have to do things that we hate it when they are done by others? > If you know what you want you can turn the knob. > > > So in my opinion it's too early to add things like that at this point. > > Meh.. Seriously, I'm not even sure if we really need that stuff to be honest. -- I speak only for myself. Rafael J. Wysocki, Intel Open Source Technology Center.