Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 22 Oct 2008 06:47:38 -0700 | From | Arjan van de Ven <> | Subject | Re: sched: deep power-saving states |
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On Wed, 22 Oct 2008 09:42:52 -0400 Gregory Haskins <gregory.haskins.ml@gmail.com> wrote:
> What I was thinking is that a simple mechanism to quantify the > power-state penalty would be to add those states as priority levels in > the cpupri namespace. E.g. We could substitute IDLE-RUNNING for IDLE, > and add IDLE-PS1, IDLE-PS2, .. IDLE-PSn, OTHER, RT1, .. RT99. This > means the scheduler would favor waking an IDLE-RUNNING core over an > IDLE-PS1-PSn, etc. The question in my mind is: can the power-states > be determined in a static fashion such that we know what value to > quantify the idle state before we enter it? Or is it more dynamic > (e.g. the longer it is in an MWAIT, the deeper the sleep gets).
it's a little dynamic, but just assuming the worst will be a very good approximation of reality. And we know what we're getting into in that sense.
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