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

[Arjan van de Ven]

On 8/20/2012 1:06 AM, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> 
> 
> There's also cases where the kernel has insufficient information 
> from the hardware and from the admin about the preferred 
> characteristics/policy of the system - a tweakable fallback knob 
> might be provided for that sad case.
> 
> The point is, that knob is not the policy setting and it's not 
> the main mechanism. It's a fallback.

if we call the knob "powersave", it better save power...
if we call it "group together" or "spread out".. no problem with that.




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