Re: [PATCH] sched/fair: check for idle core

Viresh Kumar
2020-10-27T03:01:10Z

On 23-10-20, 17:06, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
> On Friday, October 23, 2020 8:12:46 AM CEST Viresh Kumar wrote:
> > On 22-10-20, 13:45, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
> > > On Thursday, October 22, 2020 12:47:03 PM CEST Viresh Kumar wrote:
> > > > And I am not really sure why we always wanted this backup performance
> > > > governor to be there unless the said governors are built as module.
> > >
> > > Apparently, some old drivers had problems with switching frequencies fast enough
> > > for ondemand to be used with them and the fallback was for those cases. AFAICS.
> >
> > Do we still need this ?
>
> For the reasonably modern hardware, I don't think so.
>
> > Or better ask those platforms to individually
> > enable both of them.
>
> Bu who knows what they are? :-)

I was planning to break them and let them complain :)

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