Messages in this thread |  | | | From | Timothy Covell <> | | Subject | Scheduler, Can we save some juice ... | | Date | Thu, 20 Dec 2001 00:33:23 -0600 |
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On Wednesday 19 December 2001 21:50, Rik van Riel wrote: > On Tue, 18 Dec 2001, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > The thing is, I'm personally very suspicious of the "features for that > > exclusive 0.1%" mentality. > > Then why do we have sendfile(), or that idiotic sys_readahead() ? > > (is there _any_ use for sys_readahead() ? at all ?) > > cheers, > > Rik
OK, here's another 0.1% for you. Considering how Linux SMP doesn't have high CPU affinity, would it be possible to make a patch such that the additional CPUs remain in deep sleep/HALT mode until the first CPU hits a high-water mark of say 90% utilization? I've started doing this by hand with the (x)pulse application. My goal is to save electricity and cut down on excess heat when I'm just browsing the web and not compiling or seti@home'ing.
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