[TillE]

With modern hardware and OSes the ideal answer is typically to run non-essential tasks exclusively on efficiency cores. So you leave the performance cores free to handle stuff that the user immediately cares about.

[viraptor]

If anyone wants to play with that, the "uclamp" interface is the "nice" that affects the scheduler / placement / energy use. Pipewire got a patch recently to keep the requested power low https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/pipewire/pipewire/-/commit/70...