Re: [discussion]sched: a rough proposal to enable power saving inscheduler

From: Arjan van de Ven
Date: Wed Aug 15 2012 - 09:44:58 EST


On 8/15/2012 4:05 AM, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> Yay, ideally we'd also provide a 3rd option: auto, which simply switches
> between the two based on AC/BAT, UPS

nooooooo!

anything but this.
if anyone thinks that AC/Battery matters for power sensitivity... they need to go talk to a datacenter operator ;-)

seriously, there are possibly many ways to have a power/performance preference..,. but AC/battery is a very very poor one.

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