linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 2/3] sched: idle: Add sched balance option

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Message-ID: <20140427193928.GC17778@laptop.programming.kicks-ass.net>
Date:	Sun, 27 Apr 2014 21:39:28 +0200
From:	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
To:	"Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@...ysocki.net>
Cc:	Amit Kucheria <amit.kucheria@...aro.org>,
	Daniel Lezcano <daniel.lezcano@...aro.org>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>,
	Lists linaro-kernel <linaro-kernel@...ts.linaro.org>,
	Linux PM list <linux-pm@...r.kernel.org>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/3] sched: idle: Add sched balance option

On Sun, Apr 27, 2014 at 03:54:32PM +0200, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
> On Saturday, April 26, 2014 12:55:37 PM Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> > On Sat, Apr 26, 2014 at 02:18:58AM +0200, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
> > > And why do we have to do things that we hate it when they are done by others?
> > 
> > Well, I'm assuming that these things that I dislike are actually useful
> > and liked by the majority (me not fitting that is nothing new). If
> > everybody hates these things, WTF are they still the default on pretty
> > much every OS out there, Windows and Mac OS do the same screen dimming
> > things when they loose AC last time I touched one of them.
> 
> Well, vendors have certain battery life targets for their products (you
> know, something for the marketing people to brag about) and tend to be
> quite aggressive about doing whatever they can to reach them.

Well, I was just hoping the industry wasn't _that_ rotten and there was
actual a majority of people liking this.

> We don't have such targets for the mainline kernel, though, do we? ;-)

No, for sure :-)
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