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From: Chris Friesen <chris.friesen@genband.com>
To: Matthew Garrett <mjg59@srcf.ucam.org>
Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>,
	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 13:45:09 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <502E9F45.6030606@genband.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20120817184705.GB13369@srcf.ucam.org>

On 08/17/2012 12:47 PM, Matthew Garrett wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 17, 2012 at 11:44:03AM -0700, Arjan van de Ven wrote:
>> On 8/17/2012 11:41 AM, Matthew Garrett wrote:
>>> On Thu, Aug 16, 2012 at 07:01:25AM -0700, Arjan van de Ven wrote:
>>>> 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.
>> not on Intel
>>
>> you can't enter package c3 either until every one is down.
>> (e.g. memory controller must stay on etc etc)
> I thought that was only PC6 - is there any reason why the package cache
> can't be entirely powered down?

According to 
"http://www.hotchips.org/wp-content/uploads/hc_archives/hc23/HC23.19.9-Desktop-CPUs/HC23.19.921.SandyBridge_Power_10-Rotem-Intel.pdf" 
once you're in package C6 then you can go to package C7.

The datasheet for the Xeon E5 (my variant at least) says it doesn't do 
C7 so never powers down the LLC.  However, as you said earlier once you 
can put the socket into C6 which saves about 30W compared to C1E.

So as far as I can see with this CPU at least you would benefit from 
shutting down a whole socket when possible.

Chris

  reply	other threads:[~2012-08-17 19:47 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 [this message]
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

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