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Message-ID: <00000139457cd7a4-6dc13b06-c387-4c5e-9297-121c9cde6c39-000000@email.amazonses.com>
Date:	Mon, 20 Aug 2012 19:22:53 +0000
From:	Christoph Lameter <cl@...ux.com>
To:	Matthew Garrett <mjg59@...f.ucam.org>
cc:	Arjan van de Ven <arjan@...ux.intel.com>,
	Alex Shi <alex.shi@...el.com>,
	Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@...llo.nl>,
	Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@...el.com>,
	vincent.guittot@...aro.org, svaidy@...ux.vnet.ibm.com,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [discussion]sched: a rough proposal to enable power saving in
 scheduler

On Mon, 20 Aug 2012, Matthew Garrett wrote:

> On Mon, Aug 20, 2012 at 03:47:54PM +0000, Christoph Lameter wrote:
>
> > So please make sure that there are obvious and easy ways to switch this
> > stuff off or provide "low latency" know that keeps the system from
> > assuming that idle time means that full performance is not needed.
>
> That seems like an issue for cpuidle, not the scheduler. Does pm_qos not
> already do what you want?

Dont know. A simple solution is not to compile power management into the
kernel.

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