Hi Amit, Peter,

On Wed, Jun 13, 2012 at 2:47 PM, Peter Zijlstra [off-list ref] wrote:

On Wed, 2012-06-13 at 18:14 +0530, Amit Kucheria wrote:

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Various discussions around power-aware scheduling have amplified the
need for the scheduler to have some knowledge of DVFS. This would then
require the scheduler to track 'cpu_power' ( = max power) and perhaps
a new variable 'current_power' that is changed by the DVFS framework.

Note that capacity is in fact a better term -- not to be confused with
the capacity as currently in use within the load-balancer. Luckily
there's no way to read that an not be confused.. uhmm :-)

quoted

The first goal, though, is to make sure that the scheduler can handle
different cpu_power values due to asymmetric cores.

I would think the very first goal was to do a simple packing balancer
before doing silly things with asymmetric setups.. but what do I know.

Sure! First things first ;p

Thanks for the details!

Regards,
Jean