Seeing hidden motives everywhere? [LWN.net]

Seeing hidden motives everywhere?

Posted Oct 31, 2013 1:35 UTC (Thu) by vomlehn (guest, #45588)
Parent article: The power-aware scheduling mini-summit

So, what with the NSA apparently subverting standards processes, I think I'm starting to see hidden motives everywhere. Intel seems to have torpedoed a good discussion about exactly what needs to be measured. It sounds like they then declined to provide detailed power consumption information, in spite of the importance of such information. This sounds like they were fighting the goal of the meeting--not what we want to see from a major player.

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Seeing hidden motives everywhere?

Posted Oct 31, 2013 1:51 UTC (Thu) by corbet (editor, #1) [Link] (1 responses)

It's easy to get paranoid in 2013, but that may be a bit more than is strictly necessary. Intel's developers were active participants in the meeting, and they have a clear interest in getting good power performance with Linux. They didn't torpedo anything; my apologies if the article gave a different impression.

If anything, it's a disagreement over approach. Intel's current thinking seems to be to solve these problems with a lot of magic buried in the hardware, but a lot of people think that the scheduler, which has a clue about what the system needs to accomplish, can usefully participate in the process. It will work out in the end.

Seeing hidden motives everywhere?

Posted Oct 31, 2013 21:17 UTC (Thu) by vomlehn (guest, #45588) [Link]

Thanks for the perspective, Jon. Being paranoid is tiring!