Gioele Barabucci wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> is there a way to shutdown one of the two cores found in Core 2 Duo 
> processors when, even if multiple process are running, the load is low enough 
> to be handled by one CPU?
> 
> The scheduler tries quite hard to balance processes between the two cores, 
> even when that balancing is not really needed (listening to music in the 
> background for example, a 2% CPU task). This shows up as a lot of  "Kernel 
> IPI: Rescheduling interrupts" messages in powertop.
> 

unfortunately there is no efficient way to do this; what is there actually ends 
up burning you more power........

we need to fix the scheduler instead for sure.

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