Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 15 May 2012 17:05:47 +0200 | Subject | Re: Plumbers: Tweaking scheduler policy micro-conf RFP | From | Vincent Guittot <> |
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On 15 May 2012 15:00, Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> wrote: > On Tue, 2012-05-15 at 14:57 +0200, Vincent Guittot wrote: >> >> Not sure that nobody cares but it's much more that scheduler, >> load_balance and sched_mc are sensible enough that it's difficult to >> ensure that a modification will not break everything for someone >> else. > > Thing is, its already broken, there's nothing else to break :-) >
sched_mc is the only power-aware knob in the current scheduler. It's far from being perfect but it seems to work on some ARM platform at least. You mentioned at the scheduler mini-summit that we need a cleaner replacement and everybody has agreed on that point. Is anybody working on it yet ? and can we discuss at Plumber's what this replacement would look like ?
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