Re: [RFC v1] Tunable sched_mc_power_savings=n

[Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>]

On Fri, 2008-06-27 at 00:38 +0200, Andi Kleen wrote:
> Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> 
> >> And your workload manager could just nice processes. It should probably
> >> do that anyways to tell ondemand you don't need full frequency.
> > 
> > Except that I want my nice 19 distcc processes to utilize as much cpu as
> > possible, but just not bother any other stuff I might be doing...
> 
> They already won't do that if you run ondemand and cpufreq. It won't
> crank up the frequency for niced processes.
> 
> Extending that existing policy to socket load balancing would be only
> natural.

There used to be an option for them to also up on niced load. If that
disappeared then I'd call that a huge usability regression. Basically
making ondemand useless.

/me checks,..

Yeah, on F9, my opteron runs at 1GHz when idle, but when I start distcc,
which like said runs on nice 19, the cpu speed goes up to 2.4GHz.

And it uses the ondemand govenor.