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Feral's GameMode 1.8 Adds CPU Core Pinning and Parking (www.phoronix.com)

submitted 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

The article explains what it means. If there's something about the explanation that you don't understand, maybe you could ask specifically about that?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

The article didn't really explain anything though. All it did was mention a couple types of processors that may benefit.

Someone more knowledgeable can correct me, but the main idea is that pinning can dedicate (or pin) certain cores to a specific process such as a game to improve performance.

Parking can dynamically disable cores not needed for the process, improving thermals and energy consumption.