linux-kernel - Re: [patch v7 0/21] sched: power aware scheduling

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Message-ID: <1367310625.4616.71.camel@marge.simpson.net>
Date:	Tue, 30 Apr 2013 10:30:25 +0200
From:	Mike Galbraith <bitbucket@...ine.de>
To:	Len Brown <lenb@...nel.org>
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Subject: Re: [patch v7 0/21] sched: power aware scheduling

On Tue, 2013-04-30 at 07:16 +0200, Mike Galbraith wrote:

> Well now, that's not exactly what I expected to see for AIM7 compute.
> Filesystem is munching cycles otherwise used for compute when load is
> spread across the whole box vs consolidated.

So AIM7 compute performance delta boils down to: powersaving stacks
tasks, so they pat single bit of spinning rust sequentially/gently.

-Mike

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