Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: RFC: A proposal for power capping through forced idle in the Linux Kernel | From | Peter Zijlstra <> | Date | Tue, 22 Dec 2009 20:48:24 +0100 |
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On Mon, 2009-12-14 at 16:19 -0800, Arjan van de Ven wrote:
> I like the general idea, I have one request (that I didn't see quite in > your explanation): Please make sure that all cpus in the system do > their idle injection at the same time, so that memory can go into power > saving mode as well during this time etc etc...
And then you're going to ask that it scales too, right? :-)
Gang-scheduling is inherently non scalable, be it for idle time or not.
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