From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752396Ab0DOHvb (ORCPT ); Thu, 15 Apr 2010 03:51:31 -0400 Received: from bombadil.infradead.org ([18.85.46.34]:56867 "EHLO bombadil.infradead.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751251Ab0DOHva (ORCPT ); Thu, 15 Apr 2010 03:51:30 -0400 Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/3] [idled]: Idle Cycle Injector for power capping From: Peter Zijlstra To: Salman Cc: mingo@elte.hu, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, akpm@linux-foundation.org, svaidy@linux.vnet.ibm.com, linux-pm@lists.linux-foundation.org, arjan@infradead.org, csadler@google.com, ranjitm@google.com, kenchen@google.com, dawnchen@google.com In-Reply-To: <20100413234902.29004.41655.stgit@bumblebee1.mtv.corp.google.com> References: <20100413234902.29004.41655.stgit@bumblebee1.mtv.corp.google.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Date: Thu, 15 Apr 2010 09:51:26 +0200 Message-ID: <1271317886.32749.69.camel@laptop> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.28.3 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Tue, 2010-04-13 at 17:08 -0700, Salman wrote: > As we discussed earlier this year, Google has an implementation that it > would like to share. I have finally gotten around to porting it to > v2.6.33 and cleaning up the interfaces. It is provided in the following > messages for your review. I realize that when we first discussed this > idea, a lot of ideas were presented for enhancing it. Thanks alot for > your suggestions. I haven't gotten around to implementing any of them. .33 is way too old to submit patches against. That said, I really really dislike this approach, I would much rather see it tie in with power aware scheduling.