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[RFC,05/12,v2] CONFIG for Workload Consolidation

Message ID 1399832221-8314-6-git-send-email-yuyang.du@intel.com (mailing list archive)
State RFC, archived
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Yuyang Du May 11, 2014, 6:16 p.m. UTC 
Add CONFIG_WORKLOAD_CONSOLIDATION in arch/x86/Kconfig. This CONFIG enables
and disables CPU workload consolidation in scheduler's load balancing.

Signed-off-by: Yuyang Du <yuyang.du@intel.com>
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 arch/x86/Kconfig |   10 ++++++++++
 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+)
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diff --git a/arch/x86/Kconfig b/arch/x86/Kconfig
index 9bfac8d..0999c16 100644
--- a/arch/x86/Kconfig
+++ b/arch/x86/Kconfig
@@ -808,6 +808,16 @@  config CPU_CONCURRENCY
 	  load balancing for power efficiency without sacrificing performance.
 	  If unsure say N here.
 
+config WORKLOAD_CONSOLIDATION
+	bool "CPU Workload Consolidation"
+	default n
+	depends on CPU_CONCURRENCY
+	---help---
+	  CPU Workload Consolidation is a new CPU PM module, which uses the CPU
+	  concurrency of the CPU, and allows asymmetric concurrency across CPUs to
+	  reduce the SW and HW overhead to increase load balance efficiency and
+	  conserve energy. If unsure say N here.
+
 source "kernel/Kconfig.preempt"
 
 config X86_UP_APIC