Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 09 Jan 2012 06:13:09 -0800 | From | Arjan van de Ven <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] x86,sched: Fix sched_smt_power_savings totally broken |
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On 1/9/2012 2:28 AM, Peter Zijlstra wrote: > On Mon, 2012-01-09 at 11:06 +0100, Peter Zijlstra wrote: >> I'm >< close to committing a patch removing all the power_saving >> magic from the scheduler. > > Unless someone steps up that says they care about this crap and are > willing to clean it up this goes in... >
there is one legitimate choice to make in the scheduler, which is a real honest preference: the spread out versus "sort left" preference.
that doesn't need 15 knobs, that needs one. I can totally buy that this might be easiest done by ripping out all existing stuff, and then doing something relatively simple (say, in the, "which CPU to run at" logic, a minor bias)
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