Re: [discussion]sched: a rough proposal to enable power saving inscheduler

[Peter Zijlstra]

On Wed, 2012-08-15 at 06:45 -0700, Arjan van de Ven wrote:
> On 8/15/2012 4:05 AM, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> > Yay, ideally we'd also provide a 3rd option: auto, which simply switches
> > between the two based on AC/BAT, UPS 
> 
> nooooooo!
> 
> anything but this.
> if anyone thinks that AC/Battery matters for power sensitivity... they
> need to go talk to a datacenter operator ;-)

Servers in a datacenter have battery?

> seriously, there are possibly many ways to have a power/performance
> preference..,. but AC/battery is a very very poor one.
> 
Do expand..
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