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From: venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com
Subject: [patch 0/6] cpufreq: Use idle micro-accounting information in
	ondemand governor
Date: Thu, 17 Jul 2008 13:55:54 -0700
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Currently, ondemand governor uses jiffy based idle statistics which is
very coarse grained. As a result, ondemand uses a big gaurd band around
CPU utilization while calculating the next freq.

This patchset lets ondemand use idle microaccounting when available
(when tickless feature is present) and switches to a smaller gaurd band.
This lets us do more aggressive power savings in partial idle workloads.

Signed-off-by: Venkatesh Pallipadi <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com>


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