Subject: Re: high power consumption in recent kernels
From: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
To: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Norbert Preining <preining@logic.at>,
       Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
       Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>, akpm <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
       tglx <tglx@linutronix.de>
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Date: Thu, 08 Jul 2010 22:44:14 +0200
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On Thu, 2010-07-08 at 21:40 +0200, Mike Galbraith wrote:
> > Mike could you re-run your netperf tests that showed the 10% throughput
> > gain? Hopefully the fixed governor will yield the same result and we can
> > kill off this ratelimit thing.
> 
> The gain is (well was last time I checked), but as noted, I'd just call
> it a misguided optimization and be done with it. 

It would still be good to know what your machine does, if you can still
see a difference there might still be something to look at.

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