On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 5:04 PM, Erik Andrén <[email protected]> wrote:
> 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?

Yup
http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=5471

--
andika

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