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From: Vivek Haldar <vhaldar@uci.edu>
To: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org>
Cc: cpufreq list <cpufreq@www.linux.org.uk>
Subject: Re: Dynamic frequency governor
Date: Fri, 17 Oct 2003 22:58:44 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3F90D694.5020702@uci.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1066453236.7590.4.camel@ixodes.goop.org>

Jeremy Fitzhardinge wrote:

>On Fri, 2003-10-17 at 14:14, Moore, Robert wrote:
>  
>
>>Hi all,
>>
>>I've been chartered to implement a multi-state algorithm for Linux;
>>this will be a new governor that adjusts the CPU frequency based upon
>>percent CPU utilization as reported from the kernel idle handler.
>>
>>Has any work been done (or is being done) in this area?  I don't want to
>>rewrite the wheel.
>>    
>>
>
>Speedfreq (http://www.goop.org/~jeremy/speedfreq) does this in
>userspace.  I'm not sure there's much win in putting it into the kernel,
>but a better idle measurement would be nice (I use /proc/uptime, which
>can only be reliably polled a couple of times a second).
>
I have a very similar tool called LAMP - 
http://gandalf.ics.uci.edu/~haldar/lamp/ . I didn't know about your 
program until this post.

I agree with you that this should be in user-space, not in kernel space.

Vivek.

  reply	other threads:[~2003-10-18  5:58 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-10-17 21:14 Dynamic frequency governor Moore, Robert
2003-10-18  5:00 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2003-10-18  5:58   ` Vivek Haldar [this message]
2003-10-19 21:34     ` Jeroen van der Vegt
2003-10-18  6:44 ` David Kar-Fai Tam
2003-12-22 21:41   ` David Kar-Fai Tam
2004-02-14 17:09     ` Dominik Brodowski
2003-10-19 13:24 ` Dave Jones
2003-10-20 15:40 ` Daniel Thor Kristjansson
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2003-10-20 15:31 Moore, Robert
2003-10-20 15:39 ` Dave Jones
2003-10-20 16:33 Moore, Robert
2003-10-20 17:00 ` Dave Jones
2003-10-20 17:12   ` Daniel Thor Kristjansson
2003-10-20 17:25   ` Ducrot Bruno
2003-10-20 17:32     ` Dave Jones
2003-10-20 17:35       ` Ducrot Bruno
2003-10-20 18:10         ` Dave Jones
2003-10-20 23:28         ` Sven Dowideit
2003-10-20 17:08 Moore, Robert
2003-10-21 20:31 ` Dave Jones
2003-10-21 22:21   ` David Kar-Fai Tam
2003-10-21 23:19     ` Dave Jones

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