Seeing hidden motives everywhere?
Seeing hidden motives everywhere?
Posted Oct 31, 2013 1:51 UTC (Thu) by corbet (editor, #1)In reply to: Seeing hidden motives everywhere? by vomlehn
Parent article: The power-aware scheduling mini-summit
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.