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Date:	Wed, 23 Jan 2013 10:01:00 +0800
From:	Alex Shi <alex.shi@...el.com>
To:	Mike Galbraith <efault@....de>
CC:	Paul Turner <pjt@...gle.com>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>,
	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Arjan van de Ven <arjan@...ux.intel.com>,
	Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>, namhyung@...nel.org,
	Vincent Guittot <vincent.guittot@...aro.org>,
	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
	preeti@...ux.vnet.ibm.com,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 09/22] sched: compute runnable load avg in cpu_load
 and cpu_avg_load_per_task

On 01/23/2013 09:47 AM, Mike Galbraith wrote:
> On Wed, 2013-01-23 at 08:36 +0800, Alex Shi wrote: 
>> On 01/22/2013 05:52 PM, Mike Galbraith wrote:
>>> On Tue, 2013-01-22 at 15:50 +0800, Alex Shi wrote:
>>>
>>>> Thanks for your suggestions and example, Mike!
>>>> I just can't understand the your last words here, Sorry. what the
>>>> detailed concern of you on 'both performance profiles with either
>>>> metric'? Could you like to give your preferred solutions?
>>>
>>> Hm.. I'll try rephrasing.  Any power saving gain will of necessity be
>>> paid for in latency currency.  I don't have a solution other than make a
>>> button, let the user decide whether history influences fast path task
>>> placement or not.  Any other decision maker will get it wrong.
>>
>> Um, if no other objection, I'd like to move the runnable load only used
>> for power friendly policy -- for this patchset, they are 'powersaving'
>> and 'balance', Can I?
> 
> Yeah, that should work be fine.

Thanks for comments! :)
> 
> -Mike
> 


-- 
Thanks Alex
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