Re: [RFC PATCH v2 6/8] cpuidle: make fast idle threshold tunable

["Li, Aubrey" <aubrey.li@linux.intel.com>]

On 2017/10/17 8:01, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
> On Monday, October 16, 2017 8:00:45 AM CEST Li, Aubrey wrote:
>> On 2017/10/14 8:59, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
>>> On Saturday, September 30, 2017 9:20:32 AM CEST Aubrey Li wrote:
>>>> Add a knob to make fast idle threshold tunable
>>>>
>>>> Signed-off-by: Aubrey Li <aubrey.li@linux.intel.com>
>>>
>>> I first of all am not sure about the need to add a tunable for this at all
>>> in the first place.
>>
>> Actually I think a fixed value(10) might be good enough but not quite sure
>> if there is a requirement to tune it for different scenario, for example even
>> if the predicted idle interval is 100x overhead, I still want a fast path for
>> a better benchmark score?
> 
> Any new tunables make the test matrix expand considerably, so it generally is
> better to err on the conservative side with adding them.
> 

Okay, it's fine for me without it. I'll remove in the next version.

Thanks,
-Aubrey