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Date: Mon, 20 Aug 2012 16:52:03 +0100
From: Matthew Garrett <mjg59@srcf.ucam.org>
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Subject: Re: [discussion]sched: a rough proposal to enable power saving in
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On Mon, Aug 20, 2012 at 03:47:54PM +0000, Christoph Lameter wrote:

> So please make sure that there are obvious and easy ways to switch this
> stuff off or provide "low latency" know that keeps the system from
> assuming that idle time means that full performance is not needed.

That seems like an issue for cpuidle, not the scheduler. Does pm_qos not 
already do what you want?

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Matthew Garrett | mjg59@srcf.ucam.org
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