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SubjectRe: [discussion]sched: a rough proposal to enable power saving in scheduler
On 08/15/2012 10:55 PM, Peter Zijlstra wrote:

> On Wed, 2012-08-15 at 20:24 +0600, Rakib Mullick wrote:
>> How do you plan to test this power saving scheme? Using powertop? Or,
>> is there any other tools?
>
> We should start out simple enough that we can validate it by looking at
> task placement by hand, eg. 4 tasks on a dual socket quad-core, should
> only keep one socket awake.
>
> We can also add an power aware evaluator to Linsched (another one of
> those things that needs getting sorted).
>
> And yeah, someone running with a power meter is of course king.
>
> _BUT_ we shouldn't go off the wall with power meters as that very
> quickly gets very specific to the system being measured.
>
> We should really keep this thing as simple as possible while still
> providing some benefit for all various architectures without tons of per
> arch knobs and knowhow.


Definitely agree all!


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