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SubjectRe: [RFC v1] Tunable sched_mc_power_savings=n
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Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org> said on Fri, 27 Jun 2008 00:38:53 +0200:
> Peter Zijlstra wrote:
>
> >> And your workload manager could just nice processes. It should probably
> >> do that anyways to tell ondemand you don't need full frequency.
> >
> > Except that I want my nice 19 distcc processes to utilize as much cpu as
> > possible, but just not bother any other stuff I might be doing...
>
> They already won't do that if you run ondemand and cpufreq. It won't
> crank up the frequency for niced processes.

Shouldn't there be a powernice, just as there is an ionice and a nice?
Just as you don't always want CPU priority and IO priority to be
coupled, Peter has just demonstrated a very good case where you don't
want power and CPU choices to be coupled. Whether the ondemand
governor of CPUFreq counts a process as wanting the CPU to run at a
higher speed, and these scheduler decisions should be controlled by
powernice. By default, perhaps a high powernice should equal a high
nice equal to a high ionice, but the user should be able to change
this. The last thing you want is a distcc process taking up lots of
time, burning more Joules because it runs 10 times longer with only
half the power. It's not a nice choice between that and running at
nice 0 where it interferes with the user's editing.


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