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From: Arjan van de Ven <arjanv@redhat.com>
To: "Pallipadi, Venkatesh" <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com>
Cc: cpufreq@www.linux.org.uk, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-acpi <linux-acpi@intel.com>,
	"Mallick, Asit K" <asit.k.mallick@intel.com>,
	"Nakajima, Jun" <jun.nakajima@intel.com>,
	Dominik Brodowski <linux@brodo.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] 3/3 Dynamic cpufreq governor and updates to ACPI P-state driver
Date: Tue, 21 Oct 2003 10:38:53 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1066725533.5237.3.camel@laptop.fenrus.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <88056F38E9E48644A0F562A38C64FB60077914@scsmsx403.sc.intel.com>

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On Tue, 2003-10-21 at 04:56, Pallipadi, Venkatesh wrote:
> Patch 3/3: New dynamic cpufreq driver (called 
> DemandBasedSwitch driver), which periodically monitors CPU 
> usage and changes the CPU frequency based on the demand.


it's all nice code and such, but I still wonder why this can't be done
by a userland policy daemon. The 2.6 kernel has the infrastructure to
give very detailed information to userspace (eg top etc) about idle
percentages...... I didn't see anything in this driver that couldn't be
done from userspace.

Note that I'm not totally against doing some of this in the kernel; I
can well see the point of say, detecting an IRQ overload and based on
that, go to max speed in the kernel because it's a situation where
userspace doesn't even run; but the patch as is doesn't do any such
advanced things...

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  reply	other threads:[~2003-10-21  8:39 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-10-21  2:56 [PATCH] 3/3 Dynamic cpufreq governor and updates to ACPI P-state driver Pallipadi, Venkatesh
2003-10-21  8:38 ` Arjan van de Ven [this message]
2003-10-21  9:59   ` Mattia Dongili
2003-10-21 10:17     ` Wichert Akkerman
2003-10-21 10:52       ` Mattia Dongili
2003-10-21 15:36         ` Daniel Thor Kristjansson
2003-10-21 20:32           ` Dominik Brodowski
2003-10-22 15:48             ` Daniel Thor Kristjansson
2003-10-23 14:32             ` Pavel Machek
2003-10-24 18:22               ` Dominik Brodowski
2003-10-21 19:23         ` Carl Thompson
2003-10-21 20:37           ` Dominik Brodowski
2003-10-23 14:17 ` Pavel Machek
2003-10-23 20:47   ` Moore, Robert
2003-10-23 21:50     ` Nakajima, Jun
2003-10-24 18:38       ` Dominik Brodowski
2003-10-24 11:27     ` Ducrot Bruno
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2003-10-24 18:52 Pallipadi, Venkatesh

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