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From: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Subject: Re: [Cbe-oss-dev] [Patch] Resending:
	cell_add_spuaware_cpufreq_governor.diff
Date: Wed, 16 Apr 2008 14:08:25 +0200
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Cc: parabelboi@bopserverein.de, Christian Krafft <krafft@de.ibm.com>, cpufreq@lists.linux.org.uk

On Wednesday 16 April 2008, Christian Krafft wrote:
> This patch is also missing a correct load calculation.
> It works pretty well for spu's running at full time or idling, but not so well
> for mixed load (i.e. each spu running 50 percent of the time we would
> switch to fullspeed instead of half speed).

So why should that be something to optimize for? If the SPUs are all idle,
I would assume we'd be better off throwing the tasks off and putting them
into low-power mode, rather than changing the frequency, right?

What's the point of your driver, really?

	Arnd <><