Making power policy just work [LWN.net]

Making power policy just work

Posted Jul 3, 2008 13:23 UTC (Thu) by davecb (subscriber, #1574)
Parent article: Making power policy just work

Andi Kleen notes that:
| Tunables are basically "we give up, let's push the problem to the user"
| which is not nice. I suspect a lot of users won't even know if their
| workloads are bursty or not. Or they might have workloads which are 
| both bursty and not bursty. 

Tunables are also something for external daemons to change: the famous
example is the IBM z/OS Workload Manager (WLM), which looks at 
application (actually workload) progress and a table of requirements 
and adjusts CPU, IO and memory tunables to speed to slow the workload.

--dave

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Making power policy just work

Posted Jul 5, 2008 1:31 UTC (Sat) by IkeTo (subscriber, #2122) [Link]

> | Tunables are basically "we give up, let's push the problem to the user"

> Tunables are also something for external daemons to change

So "user" means "user mode".