From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Viresh Kumar Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/11] cpufreq: governor: Use common global_dbs_data pointer Date: Fri, 5 Feb 2016 08:32:54 +0530 Message-ID: <20160205030254.GA21792@vireshk> References: <3705929.bslqXH980s@vostro.rjw.lan> <1876466.AY9fn15fDn@vostro.rjw.lan> <20160204053614.GV3469@vireshk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Received: from mail-pf0-f173.google.com ([209.85.192.173]:33349 "EHLO mail-pf0-f173.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750808AbcBEDC6 (ORCPT ); Thu, 4 Feb 2016 22:02:58 -0500 Received: by mail-pf0-f173.google.com with SMTP id w123so60899573pfb.0 for ; Thu, 04 Feb 2016 19:02:58 -0800 (PST) Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: Sender: linux-pm-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-pm@vger.kernel.org To: "Rafael J. Wysocki" Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" , Linux PM list , Linux Kernel Mailing List , Srinivas Pandruvada , Juri Lelli , Steve Muckle , Saravana Kannan On 04-02-16, 17:52, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote: > On Thu, Feb 4, 2016 at 6:36 AM, Viresh Kumar wrote: > > Consider a two policy system, who is stopping us from setting ondemand > > for one of them and conservative for the other one ? And so, we will > > have two gdbs_data .. > > I don't really regard that as an entirely sane thing to do, but you > have a point here. Why? Its quite useful IMO. For example on TC2, we have two clusters of A7 and A15. And we actually can configure A7 for interactive and A15 for ondemand. And this is very useful for performance/power metrics. -- viresh