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Small-task packing

Small-task packing

Posted Oct 26, 2012 5:17 UTC (Fri) by Fowl (subscriber, #65667)
Parent article: Small-task packing

A one third reduction in power usage certainly seems significant! What sort of a synthetic workload is 'cyclictest'?

Is this independent of 'parking' or just a mechanism to allow it to happen more often?


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Small-task packing

Posted Oct 29, 2012 21:08 UTC (Mon) by jonabbey (subscriber, #2736) [Link]

The article seems to state there was a 2/3rds power reduction, actually.

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