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From: "Srivatsa S. Bhat" <srivatsa.bhat@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 2/5] powernv, cpufreq:Add per-core locking to serialize
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On 03/21/2014 02:12 PM, Viresh Kumar wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 20, 2014 at 5:40 PM, Gautham R. Shenoy
> <ego@linux.vnet.ibm.com> wrote:
>> From: "Srivatsa S. Bhat" <srivatsa.bhat@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
>>
>> On POWER systems, the CPU frequency is controlled at a core-level and
>> hence we need to serialize so that only one of the threads in the core
>> switches the core's frequency at a time.
> 
> Probably you don't need this anymore.
> 
> https://lkml.org/lkml/2014/3/21/23
> 

Agreed.

Regards,
Srivatsa S. Bhat