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From: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
To: Ashwin Chaugule <ashwin.chaugule@linaro.org>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, catalin.marinas@arm.com,
	mike.turquette@linaro.org, morten.rasmussen@arm.com,
	arjan@linux.intel.com, mingo@kernel.org, len.brown@intel.com,
	rjw@rjwysocki.net, linaro-acpi@lists.linaro.org, arnd@arndb.de,
	linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org, cpufreq@vger.kernel.org,
	patches@linaro.org
Subject: Re: [RFC 0/3] Experimental patchset for CPPC
Date: Thu, 14 Aug 2014 22:51:43 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20140814205143.GY6758@twins.programming.kicks-ass.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1408046230-16439-1-git-send-email-ashwin.chaugule@linaro.org>

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On Thu, Aug 14, 2014 at 03:57:07PM -0400, Ashwin Chaugule wrote:
> 
> 
> What is CPPC:
> =============
> 
> CPPC is the new interface for CPU performance control between the OS and the
> platform defined in ACPI 5.0+. The interface is built on an abstract
> representation of CPU performance rather than raw frequency.  Basic operation
> consists of:

Why do we want this? Typically we've ignored ACPI and gone straight to
MSR access, intel_pstate and intel_idle were created especially to avoid
ACPI, so why return to it.

Also, the whole interface sounds like trainwreck (one would not expect
anything else from ACPI).

So _why_?

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2014-08-14 20:51 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-08-14 19:57 [RFC 0/3] Experimental patchset for CPPC Ashwin Chaugule
2014-08-14 19:57 ` [RFC 1/3] ACPI: Add support for Platform Communication Channel Ashwin Chaugule
2014-08-14 20:11   ` Ashwin Chaugule
2014-08-14 19:57 ` [RFC 2/3] CPPC: Add support for Collaborative Processor Performance Control Ashwin Chaugule
2014-08-14 20:12   ` Ashwin Chaugule
2014-08-14 19:57 ` [RFC 3/3] CPPC: Add ACPI accessors to CPC registers Ashwin Chaugule
2014-08-14 20:12   ` Ashwin Chaugule
2014-08-14 20:11 ` [RFC 0/3] Experimental patchset for CPPC Ashwin Chaugule
2014-08-14 20:51 ` Peter Zijlstra [this message]
2014-08-14 21:56   ` Ashwin Chaugule
2014-08-15  6:19     ` Peter Zijlstra
2014-08-15 13:08       ` Ashwin Chaugule
2014-08-15 13:42         ` Arjan van de Ven
2014-08-15 13:53           ` Arjan van de Ven
2014-08-15 14:24             ` Ashwin Chaugule
2014-08-15 15:47               ` Arjan van de Ven
2014-08-15 16:41                 ` Ashwin Chaugule
2014-08-15 22:11                   ` Len Brown
2014-08-18 15:04                     ` Ashwin Chaugule
2014-08-15 14:00           ` Peter Zijlstra
2014-08-15 14:07         ` Peter Zijlstra
2014-08-15 14:37           ` Ashwin Chaugule
2014-08-15 14:41             ` Peter Zijlstra
2014-08-18 14:54               ` Ashwin Chaugule
2014-08-15 22:22 ` Len Brown

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