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From: Stratos Karafotis <stratosk@semaphore.gr>
To: Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@linaro.org>,
	"Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@sisk.pl>
Cc: cpufreq@vger.kernel.org, linux-pm@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 linux-next] cpufreq: ondemand: Calculate gradient of CPU load to early increase frequency
Date: Tue, 09 Apr 2013 19:56:53 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <51644855.1090300@semaphore.gr> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <515F2AF3.9050709@semaphore.gr>

On 04/05/2013 10:50 PM, Stratos Karafotis wrote:
> Hi Viresh,
>
> On 04/04/2013 07:54 AM, Viresh Kumar wrote:
>> Hi Stratos,
>>
>> Yes, your results show some improvements. BUT if performance is the only thing
>> we were looking for, then we will never use ondemand governor but performance
>> governor.
>>
>> I suspect this little increase in performance must have increased power numbers
>> too (significantly). So, if you can get numbers in the form of power/performance
>> with and without your patch, it will be great.
>>
>> --
>> viresh
>>
>
> I run some more tests. I increased the number of iterations to 100 (from 20).
> I also test for counter 1,000,000 (~4200us), 5,000,000 (~10000us), 15,000,000 (~30000us).
>
> This time, I also extracted statistics from cpufreq_stats driver. I think this will be an
> indication for power consumption. Below the results and attached the program I used for to
> get these numbers.

Any comments would be appreciated.

Thanks,
Stratos



  reply	other threads:[~2013-04-09 16:56 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-04-03  6:31 [PATCH v3 linux-next] cpufreq: ondemand: Calculate gradient of CPU load to early increase frequency stratosk
2013-04-03  6:43 ` Viresh Kumar
2013-04-03 11:14   ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2013-04-03 23:30     ` Stratos Karafotis
2013-04-04  4:54       ` Viresh Kumar
2013-04-05 19:50         ` Stratos Karafotis
2013-04-09 16:56           ` Stratos Karafotis [this message]
2013-04-10  3:22             ` Viresh Kumar
2013-04-16 18:34               ` Stratos Karafotis
2013-04-26 14:41             ` Stratos Karafotis
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2013-04-04  7:21 stratosk
2013-04-04  6:47 stratosk
2013-04-04  6:51 ` Viresh Kumar
2013-02-20 20:50 [PATCH " Stratos Karafotis
2013-02-21  4:59 ` Viresh Kumar
2013-02-21 11:31   ` [PATCH v2 " Stratos Karafotis
2013-02-21 15:33     ` Viresh Kumar
2013-02-21 17:39       ` [PATCH v3 " Stratos Karafotis
2013-02-22  1:56         ` Viresh Kumar
2013-02-22  5:57           ` Viresh Kumar
2013-02-22 12:47             ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2013-03-29 22:27           ` Stratos Karafotis
2013-03-29 22:38             ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2013-04-02 13:50             ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2013-04-02 15:49               ` Stratos Karafotis
2013-04-02 22:55                 ` Rafael J. Wysocki

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