2009/1/13 Arjan van de Ven <[email protected]>: > 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. >
Is there a kernel bug entry open for this issue? Regards, Erik > _______________________________________________ > Power mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.bughost.org/mailman/listinfo/power > _______________________________________________ Power mailing list [email protected] http://www.bughost.org/mailman/listinfo/power
