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

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