From: Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@linaro.org>
To: Philipp Miedl <philipp.miedl@tik.ee.ethz.ch>
Cc: alex@digriz.org.uk, jun.nakajima@intel.com,
"linux-pm@vger.kernel.org" <linux-pm@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Delayed acpi frequency governor call
Date: Wed, 25 Jan 2017 08:53:41 +0530 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20170125032341.GC20040@vireshk-i7> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <2f9b2f69-8b93-c77a-a09f-540240fecf1e@tik.ee.ethz.ch>
On 24-01-17, 15:49, Philipp Miedl wrote:
> Can you please describe how things changed from version 4.4 to 4.9 - I'm not
> sure if I understand correctly.
> Before 4.7 the governor was just running as a kernel process and triggered
> by the (free running) timers and
> now its hooked with the scheduler. So the scheduler ensures that the
> governor work is not delayed?!
Now the cpufreq callbacks gets called from within the scheduler every few
milliseconds. And once we have crossed the sampling-rate time, we reevaluate the
frequency. Though ondemand/conservative governors still used workqueue until
very recently for most of the platforms. Recently it is replaced by a RT thread.
--
viresh
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-01-25 3:23 UTC|newest]
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2017-01-20 10:07 ` Delayed acpi frequency governor call Viresh Kumar
2017-01-20 15:27 ` Philipp Miedl
2017-01-23 10:11 ` Viresh Kumar
2017-01-23 14:24 ` Philipp Miedl
2017-01-24 4:22 ` Viresh Kumar
2017-01-24 14:49 ` Philipp Miedl
2017-01-25 3:23 ` Viresh Kumar [this message]
2017-01-25 9:48 ` Philipp Miedl
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