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    sched: Remove stale power aware scheduling remnants and dysfunctional knobs · 8e7fbcbc
    Peter Zijlstra authored
    It's been broken forever (i.e. it's not scheduling in a power
    aware fashion), as reported by Suresh and others sending
    patches, and nobody cares enough to fix it properly ...
    so remove it to make space free for something better.
    
    There's various problems with the code as it stands today, first
    and foremost the user interface which is bound to topology
    levels and has multiple values per level. This results in a
    state explosion which the administrator or distro needs to
    master and almost nobody does.
    
    Furthermore large configuration state spaces aren't good, it
    means the thing doesn't just work right because it's either
    under so many impossibe to meet constraints, or even if
    there's an achievable state workloads have to be aware of
    it precisely and can never meet it for dynamic workloads.
    
    So pushing this kind of decision to user-space was a bad idea
    even with a single knob - it's exponentially worse with knobs
    on every node of the ...
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