Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 14 May 2009 21:13:16 +0530 | From | Vaidyanathan Srinivasan <> | Subject | Re: [RFC PATCH v2 0/2] Saving power by cpu evacuation sched_max_capacity_pct=n |
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* Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org> [2009-05-14 17:06:32]:
> > I think 'scheduler throttling' is good so that we avoid the term 'CPU > > throttling' or core throttling. I had named this cpu evacuation or > > core evacuation just to avoid confusion with hardware throttling. > > Evacuation sounds good, although shouldn't it be package or > socket evacuation?
Lets start with 'core evacuation' since that seems to be the lowest granularity on a threaded system. We certainly want the framework to provide socket/package and node evacuation on much larger systems.
--Vaidy
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