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. _______________________________________________ Power mailing list [email protected] http://www.bughost.org/mailman/listinfo/power
