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Fixing the ondemand governor

Fixing the ondemand governor

Posted Apr 22, 2010 5:52 UTC (Thu) by acooks (subscriber, #49539)
Parent article: Fixing the ondemand governor

Isn't this kind of load where the 'conservative' governor excels?


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Fixing the ondemand governor

Posted Apr 22, 2010 7:09 UTC (Thu) by njs (guest, #40338) [Link]

Maybe (presumably it depends on the time constants), but in general the conservative governor wastes more power, so then we need a third governor to switch between ondemand and conservative depending on workload...

Fixing the ondemand governor

Posted Apr 23, 2010 16:28 UTC (Fri) by ssam (subscriber, #46587) [Link]

:-)

please call the new governors conservative, labour and liberal. then let the processes vote for which one they want, and keep it for 4 years.

Fixing the ondemand governor

Posted Apr 22, 2010 14:56 UTC (Thu) by arjan (subscriber, #36785) [Link]

Unfortunately not.
Conservative is pretty much like ondemand, just with a slower ramp up....
so it's be worse not better at this workload.

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