On Thu, Aug 12, 2010 at 12:41:54PM -0400, Dave Jones wrote: > On Thu, Aug 12, 2010 at 06:35:54PM +0200, Andi Kleen wrote: > > Dave Jones <davej@xxxxxxxxxx> writes: > > > > > Users with dual/quad core systems can currently set individual cores to > > > have different governors (and drivers!), which doesn't really make a lot > > > of sense. > > > > Why not? Imagine a system that is partitioned using cpusets or cgroups > > for different sockets and the partitions runs different workloads. > > > > I could well imagine using different governours (= policies) > > for those different sockets. > > Different sockets is fine. I'm talking about different cores within the same socket. If you have per core p-states that makes sense too. Even without it could in principle make sense. -Andi -- ak@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx -- Speaking for myself only. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe cpufreq" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
