On 04/15/2013 05:52 PM, Borislav Petkov wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 15, 2013 at 02:16:55PM +0800, Alex Shi wrote:
>> And I need to say again. the powersaving policy just effect on system
>> under utilisation. when system goes busy, it won't has effect.
>> performance oriented policy will take over balance behaviour.
> 
> And AFACU your patches, you do this automatically, right?

Yes
 In which case,
> an underutilized system will have switched to powersaving balancing and
> will use *more* energy to retire the workload. Correct?
> 

For fairness and total threads consideration, powersaving cost quit
similar energy on kbuild benchmark, and even better.

            17348.850               27400.458              15973.776
            13737.493               18487.248              12167.816
            11057.004               16080.750              11623.661

            17288.102               27637.176              16560.375
            10356.52                18482.584              12504.702
            10905.772               16190.447              11125.625
            10785.621               16113.330              11542.140

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Thanks
    Alex
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