LKML Archive on lore.kernel.org
help / color / mirror / Atom feed
From: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>
To: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
Cc: Venkatesh Pallipadi <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com>,
	linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>, Adam Belay <abelay@novell.com>,
	Shaohua Li <shaohua.li@intel.com>,
	Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/3] Introducing cpuidle: core cpuidle infrastructure
Date: Tue, 13 Feb 2007 08:58:09 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1171353489.12771.42.camel@laptopd505.fenrus.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070213012201.GA27685@redhat.com>


> The only differentiator that I can think of would be latency, but that seems
> to be a) covered in a different tunable, and b) probably wouldn't affect
> most people enough where it matters.
> 

and for latency the kernel already has a policy thing that tracks the
maximum latency allowed.... if we need to give the user a knob to shoot
himself into the foot with that one should probably be exported instead
(although I'm still convinced it's a mistake since our beloved userspace
WILL abuse it in the most unimaginable ways)


  reply	other threads:[~2007-02-13  7:58 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-02-12 18:39 Venkatesh Pallipadi
2007-02-13  1:22 ` Dave Jones
2007-02-13  7:58   ` Arjan van de Ven [this message]
2007-02-13 13:31   ` Venkatesh Pallipadi
2007-02-14  4:10     ` Adam Belay

Reply instructions:

You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:

* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
  and reply-to-all from there: mbox

  Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style

* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
  switches of git-send-email(1):

  git send-email \
    --in-reply-to=1171353489.12771.42.camel@laptopd505.fenrus.org \
    --to=arjan@infradead.org \
    --cc=abelay@novell.com \
    --cc=akpm@osdl.org \
    --cc=davej@redhat.com \
    --cc=len.brown@intel.com \
    --cc=linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org \
    --cc=shaohua.li@intel.com \
    --cc=venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com \
    --subject='Re: [PATCH 1/3] Introducing cpuidle: core cpuidle infrastructure' \
    /path/to/YOUR_REPLY

  https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html

* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
  via mailto: links, try the mailto: link

This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox;
as well as URLs for NNTP newsgroup(s).