From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Daniel Lezcano Subject: Re: [PATCH 21/21] cpuidle: change governor from within cpuidle_replace_governor() Date: Thu, 26 Sep 2013 10:20:11 +0200 Message-ID: <5243EE3B.1050600@linaro.org> References: <5b758e21eeb97f5f68191819c0820673692b6b75.1379779777.git.viresh.kumar@linaro.org> <524368CF.4030803@linaro.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE Return-path: Received: from mail-wg0-f49.google.com ([74.125.82.49]:34073 "EHLO mail-wg0-f49.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751452Ab3IZIUP (ORCPT ); Thu, 26 Sep 2013 04:20:15 -0400 Received: by mail-wg0-f49.google.com with SMTP id l18so758338wgh.4 for ; Thu, 26 Sep 2013 01:20:14 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: Sender: linux-pm-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-pm@vger.kernel.org To: Viresh Kumar Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" , Lists linaro-kernel , Patch Tracking , "linux-pm@vger.kernel.org" , Linux Kernel Mailing List On 09/26/2013 08:37 AM, Viresh Kumar wrote: > On 26 September 2013 04:20, Daniel Lezcano wrote: >> Actually I am wondering if all this stuff is not over-engineered. >> >> There are 2 governors, each of them suits for a specific kernel conf= ig, >> periodic tick or tickless system. >> >> menu =3D> tickless system >> periodic =3D> periodic tick system >> >> IMHO, all the code with rating checking and so do not really makes >> sense. Wouldn't make sense to remove this code ? > > I am a newbie here, really can't think of all side effects of this :) Rafael is pretty busy ATM but may be he can give his feedback on this l= ater. --=20 Linaro.org =E2=94=82 Open source software fo= r ARM SoCs =46ollow Linaro: Facebook | Twitter | Blog