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

From: Peter Zijlstra
Date: Wed Aug 15 2012 - 10:45:03 EST


On Wed, 2012-08-15 at 07:19 -0700, Arjan van de Ven wrote:
> Ideally the scheduler builds up some history of the typical run
> duration of the task (with a bias to more recent runs).
> But... even then, the past is only a poor predictor for the future.

PJTs patches do this. But yes, a crystal-ball instruction which
completes in a single cycle would be most appreciated :-)
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