Re: [PATCH 6/6] sched: final power vs capacity cleanup

2014-05-19 Thread Nicolas Pitre
On Thu, 15 May 2014, Nicolas Pitre wrote: > On Thu, 15 May 2014, Peter Zijlstra wrote: > > > On Wed, May 14, 2014 at 04:57:10PM -0400, Nicolas Pitre wrote: > > > It is better not to think about compute capacity as being equivalent to > > > "CPU power". The upcoming "power aware" scheduler may cr

Re: [PATCH 6/6] sched: final power vs capacity cleanup

2014-05-15 Thread Nicolas Pitre
On Thu, 15 May 2014, Peter Zijlstra wrote: > On Wed, May 14, 2014 at 04:57:10PM -0400, Nicolas Pitre wrote: > > It is better not to think about compute capacity as being equivalent to > > "CPU power". The upcoming "power aware" scheduler may create confusion > > with the notion of energy consumpt

Re: [PATCH 6/6] sched: final power vs capacity cleanup

2014-05-15 Thread Peter Zijlstra
On Wed, May 14, 2014 at 04:57:10PM -0400, Nicolas Pitre wrote: > It is better not to think about compute capacity as being equivalent to > "CPU power". The upcoming "power aware" scheduler may create confusion > with the notion of energy consumption if "power" is used too liberally. > > This cont

[PATCH 6/6] sched: final power vs capacity cleanup

2014-05-14 Thread Nicolas Pitre
It is better not to think about compute capacity as being equivalent to "CPU power". The upcoming "power aware" scheduler may create confusion with the notion of energy consumption if "power" is used too liberally. This contains the architecture visible changes. Incidentally, only ARM takes adva