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Date: Wed, 15 Aug 2012 17:19:12 +0100
From: Matthew Garrett <mjg59@srcf.ucam.org>
To: Alex Shi <alex.shi@intel.com>
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Subject: Re: [discussion]sched: a rough proposal to enable power saving in
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On Mon, Aug 13, 2012 at 08:21:00PM +0800, Alex Shi wrote:

> power aware scheduling), this proposal will adopt the
> sched_balance_policy concept and use 2 kind of policy: performance, power.

Are there workloads in which "power" might provide more performance than 
"performance"? If so, don't use these terms.

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Matthew Garrett | mjg59@srcf.ucam.org
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