On Thu, Aug 16, 2012 at 07:01:25AM -0700, Arjan van de Ven wrote: > > *Power policy*: > > > > So how is power policy different? As Peter says,'pack more than spread > > more'. > > this is ... a dubiously general statement. > > for good power, at least on Intel cpus, you want to spread. Parallelism is > efficient.
Is this really true? In a two-socket system I'd have thought the benefit of keeping socket 1 in package C3 outweighed the cost of keeping socket 0 awake for slightly longer. -- Matthew Garrett | mj...@srcf.ucam.org -- 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/
