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From: Dominik Brodowski <linux@dominikbrodowski.net>
Subject: Re: cpufreq & dual core CPUs.
Date: Fri, 23 Jun 2006 08:50:14 +0200
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To: "Pallipadi, Venkatesh" <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>, Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>, cpufreq@www.linux.org.uk

Hi,

ISTR that your major point against software cooridnation of P-States is the
cost associated with set_cpus_allowed() -- couldn't we get rid of this if
we'd start a per-CPU thread in speedstep-centrino which takes care of
switching frequencies? threads are cheap, AFAIK...

Thanks,
	Dominik