Re: [RFC PATCH v1 1/2] sched: unified sched_powersavings sysfstunable

From: Peter Zijlstra
Date: Wed Jan 25 2012 - 10:36:30 EST


On Wed, 2012-01-25 at 07:12 -0800, Arjan van de Ven wrote:
> On 1/25/2012 7:10 AM, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
>
>
> btw... any reason why this feature is a config option with tons of
> ifdefs... why not just have this available all the time?
> it shouldn't be all that much code in the first place.

I guess its because SCHED_SMT and SCHED_MC also indicate the
availability of the topology functions like cpu_coregroup_mask() etc.

The whole powersave stuff got intermixed with all that.

But yes, I agree, we should kill all that and sort the topology stuff
differently.

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