[PATCH] sched: mc/smt power savings sched policy

[Danny Kukawka]

On Montag, 2. Juli 2007, Richard Hughes wrote:
> On Mon, 2007-07-02 at 19:45 +0200, Danny Kukawka wrote:
> > > ...and we really don't need this in a GUI.
> >
> > Why not? I want to have this configurable by the user (may in some
> > kind of expert mode)...
>
> Err no. Can you imagine the UI:
>
> Scheduler Power Management Setting (cpu0): [300]
>
> Which means _absolutely nothing_ to an end user. There's just no point.

There are more intelegent UI descriptions e.g.:
"Try to use only one CPU instead of spreading the work for all for power 
consumption" as alredy proposed by <caglar at pardus.org.tr>.

And there is no need to list the CPU. This is, if I understand the kernel code 
correct, for the complete system.

Danny