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From: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
To: Alex Shi <alex.shi@intel.com>
Cc: Matthew Garrett <mjg59@srcf.ucam.org>,
	Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>,
	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>
Subject: Re: [discussion]sched: a rough proposal to enable power saving in scheduler
Date: Thu, 16 Aug 2012 06:57:21 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <502CFC41.1030501@linux.intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <502C7F24.6020900@intel.com>

On 8/15/2012 10:03 PM, Alex Shi wrote:
> On 08/16/2012 12:19 AM, Matthew Garrett wrote:
> 
>> On Mon, Aug 13, 2012 at 08:21:00PM +0800, Alex Shi wrote:
>>
>>> power aware scheduling), this proposal will adopt the
>>> sched_balance_policy concept and use 2 kind of policy: performance, power.
>>
>> Are there workloads in which "power" might provide more performance than 
>> "performance"? If so, don't use these terms.
>>
> 
> 
> Power scheme should no chance has better performance in design.

ehm.....

so in reality, the very first thing that helps power, is to run software efficiently.

anything else is completely secondary.

if placement policy leads to a placement that's different from the most efficient placement,
you're already burning extra power...


  parent reply	other threads:[~2012-08-16 13:57 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
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 [this message]
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

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