On 08/16/2012 01:31 PM, Matthew Garrett wrote: > On Thu, Aug 16, 2012 at 01:03:32PM +0800, Alex Shi wrote: >> On 08/16/2012 12:19 AM, Matthew Garrett wrote: >>> Are there workloads in which "power" might provide more performance than >>> "performance"? If so, don't use these terms. >> >> Power scheme should no chance has better performance in design. > > Power will tend to concentrate processes on packages,
yes. while performance > will tend to split them across packages? No, there is still has balance idea in this rough proposal. If a domain is not overload, it is better to left old tasks unchanged. I should say, current scheduler is the 'performance' trend scheme. What if two cooperating > processes gain from being on the same package and sharing cache > locality? > -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/