linux-kernel.vger.kernel.org archive mirror
 help / color / mirror / Atom feed
From: Matthew Garrett <mjg59@srcf.ucam.org>
To: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
Cc: preeti <preeti@linux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>,
	Alex Shi <alex.shi@intel.com>,
	Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com>,
	vincent.guittot@linaro.org, svaidy@linux.vnet.ibm.com,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
	"linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
	Paul Turner <pjt@google.com>
Subject: Re: [discussion]sched: a rough proposal to enable power saving in scheduler
Date: Fri, 17 Aug 2012 19:41:00 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120817184100.GA13369@srcf.ucam.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <502CFD35.5000801@linux.intel.com>

On Thu, Aug 16, 2012 at 07:01:25AM -0700, Arjan van de Ven wrote:
> > *Power policy*:
> > 
> > So how is power policy different? As Peter says,'pack more than spread
> > more'.
> 
> this is ... a dubiously general statement.
> 
> for good power, at least on Intel cpus, you want to spread. Parallelism is efficient.

Is this really true? In a two-socket system I'd have thought the benefit 
of keeping socket 1 in package C3 outweighed the cost of keeping socket 
0 awake for slightly longer.

-- 
Matthew Garrett | mjg59@srcf.ucam.org

  parent reply	other threads:[~2012-08-17 18:41 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 90+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-08-13 12:21 [discussion]sched: a rough proposal to enable power saving in scheduler Alex Shi
2012-08-14  7:35 ` Alex Shi
2012-08-15  8:23   ` Peter Zijlstra
2012-08-15 11:05 ` Peter Zijlstra
2012-08-15 13:15   ` Borislav Petkov
2012-08-15 14:43     ` Peter Zijlstra
2012-08-16  3:22       ` Alex Shi
2012-08-16  3:09     ` Alex Shi
2012-08-15 13:45   ` Arjan van de Ven
2012-08-15 14:39     ` Peter Zijlstra
2012-08-15 14:43       ` Arjan van de Ven
2012-08-15 15:04         ` Peter Zijlstra
2012-08-15 17:59           ` Arjan van de Ven
2012-08-20  8:06             ` Ingo Molnar
2012-08-20  8:26               ` Peter Zijlstra
2012-08-20 13:26               ` Arjan van de Ven
2012-08-20 18:16               ` Matthew Garrett
2012-08-21  9:42                 ` Ingo Molnar
2012-08-21 11:39                   ` Matthew Garrett
2012-08-21 15:19                     ` Ingo Molnar
2012-08-21 15:21                       ` Arjan van de Ven
2012-08-21 15:28                       ` Matthew Garrett
2012-08-21 15:59                         ` Ingo Molnar
2012-08-21 16:13                           ` Matthew Garrett
2012-08-21 18:23                             ` Ingo Molnar
2012-08-21 18:34                               ` Matthew Garrett
2012-08-22  9:10                                 ` Ingo Molnar
2012-08-22 11:35                                   ` Matthew Garrett
2012-08-23  8:19                                   ` Alex Shi
2012-08-21 18:52                               ` Alan Cox
2012-08-22  9:03                                 ` Ingo Molnar
2012-08-22 11:00                                   ` Alan Cox
2012-08-22 11:33                                     ` Ingo Molnar
2012-08-22 12:58                                       ` Alan Cox
2012-08-21 16:02                       ` Alan Cox
2012-08-22  5:41                         ` Mike Galbraith
2012-08-22 13:02                           ` Arjan van de Ven
2012-08-22 13:09                             ` Mike Galbraith
2012-08-22 13:21                             ` Matthew Garrett
2012-08-22 13:23                               ` Arjan van de Ven
2012-08-16  1:14         ` Rik van Riel
2012-08-16  1:17           ` Arjan van de Ven
2012-08-16  1:21           ` Arjan van de Ven
2012-08-15 14:19   ` Arjan van de Ven
2012-08-15 14:44     ` Peter Zijlstra
2012-08-15 14:47       ` Thomas Gleixner
2012-08-15 16:23   ` Matthew Garrett
2012-08-15 16:34   ` Matthew Garrett
2012-08-15 18:02     ` Arjan van de Ven
2012-08-17  8:59       ` Paul Turner
2012-08-16  3:07   ` Alex Shi
2012-08-16  6:53   ` preeti
2012-08-16  9:58     ` Alex Shi
2012-08-16 12:45     ` Shilimkar, Santosh
2012-08-16 14:01     ` Arjan van de Ven
2012-08-16 18:45       ` Rik van Riel
2012-08-16 19:20         ` Arjan van de Ven
2012-08-17  1:29       ` Alex Shi
2012-08-17 18:41       ` Matthew Garrett [this message]
2012-08-17 18:44         ` Arjan van de Ven
2012-08-17 18:47           ` Matthew Garrett
2012-08-17 19:45             ` Chris Friesen
2012-08-17 19:50               ` Matthew Garrett
2012-08-17 20:16                 ` Chris Friesen
2012-08-18 14:33                   ` Luming Yu
2012-08-18 14:52                     ` Arjan van de Ven
2012-08-16 14:31   ` Morten Rasmussen
2012-08-19 10:12     ` Juri Lelli
2012-08-17  8:43   ` Paul Turner
2012-08-20 15:55     ` Vincent Guittot
2012-08-20 15:36   ` Vincent Guittot
2012-08-21  0:58     ` Alex Shi
2012-08-21 11:05       ` Vincent Guittot
2012-08-15 14:24 ` Rakib Mullick
2012-08-15 14:55   ` Peter Zijlstra
2012-08-15 22:58     ` Rakib Mullick
2012-08-16  5:26     ` Alex Shi
2012-08-16  4:57   ` Alex Shi
2012-08-16  8:05     ` Rakib Mullick
2012-08-15 16:19 ` Matthew Garrett
2012-08-16  5:03   ` Alex Shi
2012-08-16  5:31     ` Matthew Garrett
2012-08-16  5:39       ` Alex Shi
2012-08-16  5:45         ` Matthew Garrett
2012-08-16 13:57     ` Arjan van de Ven
2012-08-20 15:47       ` Christoph Lameter
2012-08-20 15:52         ` Matthew Garrett
2012-08-20 19:22           ` Christoph Lameter
2012-08-20 15:47     ` Vincent Guittot
2012-08-21  1:05       ` Alex Shi

Reply instructions:

You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:

* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
  and reply-to-all from there: mbox

  Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style

* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
  switches of git-send-email(1):

  git send-email \
    --in-reply-to=20120817184100.GA13369@srcf.ucam.org \
    --to=mjg59@srcf.ucam.org \
    --cc=a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl \
    --cc=akpm@linux-foundation.org \
    --cc=alex.shi@intel.com \
    --cc=arjan@linux.intel.com \
    --cc=linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org \
    --cc=mingo@kernel.org \
    --cc=pjt@google.com \
    --cc=preeti@linux.vnet.ibm.com \
    --cc=suresh.b.siddha@intel.com \
    --cc=svaidy@linux.vnet.ibm.com \
    --cc=tglx@linutronix.de \
    --cc=torvalds@linux-foundation.org \
    --cc=vincent.guittot@linaro.org \
    /path/to/YOUR_REPLY

  https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html

* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
  via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line before the message body.
This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox;
as well as URLs for NNTP newsgroup(s).