Re: [RFC][PATCH 0/4] Software coordination of frequency across CPUs sharing common P-state

[Dave Jones <davej-H+wXaHxf7aLQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org>]

On Wed, Aug 31, 2005 at 02:09:33PM -0700, Venkatesh Pallipadi wrote:

 > ACPI 3.0 (http://www.acpi.info) adds new methods with which BIOS can communicate
 > P-state dependency domains (List of CPUs that share a common P-state) to
 > the OS. This can be used in conjunction with the existing "cpu group awareness"
 > in cpufreq infrastructure, to manage the group of CPUs sharing the common 
 > P-state, in a better way.
 > 
 > The patchset that follows adds this "software-coordination" feature in 
 > acpi-perflib, and also changes acpi-cpufreq and speedstep-centrino drivers to
 > use this feature. 

Patch 1 rejects against the latest git tree, due to Len's latest ACPI changes.
That (and possibly patch 4) need redoing.

From a first look, these patches look ok to me, so if you rediff these,
and Len is happy with the ACPI changes, I'm happy to merge them for 2.6.14

Thanks,

		Dave



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