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authorSiddha, Suresh B <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com>2006-06-27 02:54:42 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@g5.osdl.org>2006-06-27 17:32:45 -0700
commit5c45bf279d378d436ce45825c0f136696c7b6109 (patch)
tree80e2fcf4866b84fccb787562e1a83b16f4bc8850 /drivers
parent369381694ddcf03f1de403501c8b97099b5109ec (diff)
[PATCH] sched: mc/smt power savings sched policy
sysfs entries 'sched_mc_power_savings' and 'sched_smt_power_savings' in /sys/devices/system/cpu/ control the MC/SMT power savings policy for the scheduler. Based on the values (1-enable, 0-disable) for these controls, sched groups cpu power will be determined for different domains. When power savings policy is enabled and under light load conditions, scheduler will minimize the physical packages/cpu cores carrying the load and thus conserving power(with a perf impact based on the workload characteristics... see OLS 2005 CMP kernel scheduler paper for more details..) Signed-off-by: Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> Cc: Con Kolivas <kernel@kolivas.org> Cc: "Chen, Kenneth W" <kenneth.w.chen@intel.com> Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers')
-rw-r--r--drivers/base/cpu.c10
1 files changed, 9 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/base/cpu.c b/drivers/base/cpu.c
index 3972d8ac9786..4bef76a2f3f2 100644
--- a/drivers/base/cpu.c
+++ b/drivers/base/cpu.c
@@ -143,5 +143,13 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(get_cpu_sysdev);
int __init cpu_dev_init(void)
{
- return sysdev_class_register(&cpu_sysdev_class);
+ int err;
+
+ err = sysdev_class_register(&cpu_sysdev_class);
+#if defined(CONFIG_SCHED_MC) || defined(CONFIG_SCHED_SMT)
+ if (!err)
+ err = sched_create_sysfs_power_savings_entries(&cpu_sysdev_class);
+#endif
+
+ return err;
}