cpufreq Archive on lore.kernel.org
 help / color / mirror / Atom feed
From: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
To: cbe-oss-dev@ozlabs.org
Cc: parabelboi@bopserverein.de, Christian Krafft <krafft@de.ibm.com>,
	cpufreq@lists.linux.org.uk
Subject: Re: [Cbe-oss-dev] [Patch] Resending: cell_add_spuaware_cpufreq_governor.diff
Date: Wed, 16 Apr 2008 14:08:25 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200804161408.26145.arnd@arndb.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080416134938.01d27dc2@de.ibm.com>

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 <><

  reply	other threads:[~2008-04-16 12:08 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-01-18 16:11 Subject: cell: add spu aware cpufreq governor Christian Krafft
2008-01-19 21:38 ` [Cbe-oss-dev] " Arnd Bergmann
2008-01-28 18:03   ` Christian Krafft
2008-01-28 18:12     ` [Cbe-oss-dev] [Patch] Resending: " Christian Krafft
2008-04-14  0:21       ` Arnd Bergmann
2008-04-16 11:49         ` [Cbe-oss-dev] [Patch] Resending: cell_add_spuaware_cpufreq_governor.diff Christian Krafft
2008-04-16 12:08           ` Arnd Bergmann [this message]
2008-04-16 14:53             ` Christian Krafft
2008-01-21  3:09 ` [Cbe-oss-dev] Subject: cell: add spu aware cpufreq governor Akinobu Mita
2008-01-28 10:26   ` Christian Krafft

Reply instructions:

You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:

* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
  and reply-to-all from there: mbox

  Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style

* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
  switches of git-send-email(1):

  git send-email \
    --in-reply-to=200804161408.26145.arnd@arndb.de \
    --to=arnd@arndb.de \
    --cc=cbe-oss-dev@ozlabs.org \
    --cc=cpufreq@lists.linux.org.uk \
    --cc=krafft@de.ibm.com \
    --cc=parabelboi@bopserverein.de \
    /path/to/YOUR_REPLY

  https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html

* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
  via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line before the message body.
This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox