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From: Sudeep Holla <sudeep.holla@arm.com>
To: Xiongfeng Wang <wangxiongfeng2@huawei.com>
Cc: rjw@rjwysocki.net, viresh.kumar@linaro.org,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-pm@vger.kernel.org,
	guohanjun@huawei.com, john.garry@huawei.com,
	Sudeep Holla <sudeep.holla@arm.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH] cpufreq: add support for HiSilicon SoC HIP09
Date: Thu, 30 Apr 2020 10:55:59 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200430095559.GB28579@bogus> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1588227599-46438-1-git-send-email-wangxiongfeng2@huawei.com>

On Thu, Apr 30, 2020 at 02:19:59PM +0800, Xiongfeng Wang wrote:
> HiSilicon SoC has a separate System Control Processor(SCP) dedicated for
> clock frequency adjustment and has been using the cpufreq driver
> 'cppc-cpufreq'. New HiSilicon SoC HIP09 add support for CPU Boost, but
> ACPI CPPC doesn't support this. In HiSilicon SoC HIP09, each core has
> its own clock domain. It is better for the core itself to adjust its
> frequency when we require fast response. In this patch, we add a
> separate cpufreq driver for HiSilicon SoC HIP09.
>

I disagree with this approach unless you have tried to extend the CPPC
in ACPI to accommodate this boost feature you need. Until you show those
efforts and disagreement to do that from ASWG, I am NACKing this approach.

--
Regards,
Sudeep

  reply	other threads:[~2020-04-30  9:56 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-04-30  6:19 [RFC PATCH] cpufreq: add support for HiSilicon SoC HIP09 Xiongfeng Wang
2020-04-30  9:55 ` Sudeep Holla [this message]
2020-05-05  2:12   ` Xiongfeng Wang
2020-05-06  9:36   ` Hanjun Guo
2020-05-06 12:49     ` Sudeep Holla
2020-05-06 12:58       ` Thanu Rangarajan
2020-05-06 14:57         ` Souvik Chakravarty
2020-05-07 13:04           ` Hanjun Guo

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