Re: [patch v5 04/15] sched: add sched balance policies in kernel

2013-02-20 Thread Alex Shi
On 02/20/2013 11:41 PM, Ingo Molnar wrote: > > * Alex Shi wrote: > >> Now there is just 2 types policy: performance and >> powersaving(with 2 degrees, powersaving and balance). > > I don't think we really want to have 'degrees' to the policies > at this point - we want each policy to be

Re: [patch v5 04/15] sched: add sched balance policies in kernel

2013-02-20 Thread Ingo Molnar
* Alex Shi wrote: > Now there is just 2 types policy: performance and > powersaving(with 2 degrees, powersaving and balance). I don't think we really want to have 'degrees' to the policies at this point - we want each policy to be extremely good at what it aims to do: - 'performance'

Re: [patch v5 04/15] sched: add sched balance policies in kernel

2013-02-20 Thread Alex Shi
On 02/20/2013 05:37 PM, Ingo Molnar wrote: > > * Alex Shi wrote: > >> Current scheduler behavior is just consider for larger >> performance of system. So it try to spread tasks on more cpu >> sockets and cpu cores >> >> To adding the consideration of power awareness, the patchset >> adds 2

Re: [patch v5 04/15] sched: add sched balance policies in kernel

2013-02-20 Thread Ingo Molnar
* Alex Shi wrote: > Current scheduler behavior is just consider for larger > performance of system. So it try to spread tasks on more cpu > sockets and cpu cores > > To adding the consideration of power awareness, the patchset > adds 2 kinds of scheduler policy: powersaving and balance. >

Re: [patch v5 04/15] sched: add sched balance policies in kernel

2013-02-20 Thread Ingo Molnar
* Alex Shi alex@intel.com wrote: Current scheduler behavior is just consider for larger performance of system. So it try to spread tasks on more cpu sockets and cpu cores To adding the consideration of power awareness, the patchset adds 2 kinds of scheduler policy: powersaving and

Re: [patch v5 04/15] sched: add sched balance policies in kernel

2013-02-20 Thread Alex Shi
On 02/20/2013 05:37 PM, Ingo Molnar wrote: * Alex Shi alex@intel.com wrote: Current scheduler behavior is just consider for larger performance of system. So it try to spread tasks on more cpu sockets and cpu cores To adding the consideration of power awareness, the patchset adds

Re: [patch v5 04/15] sched: add sched balance policies in kernel

2013-02-20 Thread Ingo Molnar
* Alex Shi alex@intel.com wrote: Now there is just 2 types policy: performance and powersaving(with 2 degrees, powersaving and balance). I don't think we really want to have 'degrees' to the policies at this point - we want each policy to be extremely good at what it aims to do: -

Re: [patch v5 04/15] sched: add sched balance policies in kernel

2013-02-20 Thread Alex Shi
On 02/20/2013 11:41 PM, Ingo Molnar wrote: * Alex Shi alex@intel.com wrote: Now there is just 2 types policy: performance and powersaving(with 2 degrees, powersaving and balance). I don't think we really want to have 'degrees' to the policies at this point - we want each policy to

[patch v5 04/15] sched: add sched balance policies in kernel

2013-02-17 Thread Alex Shi
Current scheduler behavior is just consider for larger performance of system. So it try to spread tasks on more cpu sockets and cpu cores To adding the consideration of power awareness, the patchset adds 2 kinds of scheduler policy: powersaving and balance. They will use runnable load util in

[patch v5 04/15] sched: add sched balance policies in kernel

2013-02-17 Thread Alex Shi
Current scheduler behavior is just consider for larger performance of system. So it try to spread tasks on more cpu sockets and cpu cores To adding the consideration of power awareness, the patchset adds 2 kinds of scheduler policy: powersaving and balance. They will use runnable load util in