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From: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
To: Youquan Song <youquan.song@linux.intel.com>
Cc: davej@redhat.com, venki@google.com, youquan.song@intel.com,
	cpufreq-list@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] cpufreq: Fix ondemand governor powersave_bias execution time misuse
Date: Fri, 05 Nov 2010 07:49:05 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4CD3EF31.9060909@linux.intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20101105151951.GA10743@linux-youquan.bj.intel.com>

On 11/5/2010 11:19 AM, Youquan Song wrote:
> Ondemand governor use powersave_bias tunable to do aggressive power save by
> decrease CPU average frequency. The average frequency achieve by adjust low and
> high frequency's execution time proportion during one sample time interval.
>
> Current kernel, only the high frequency executes in time proportion, but the low
> frequency wrongly execute in one whole sample time interval when powersave_bias
> is set.
>
> The patch fix it by set low frequency execution time to it deserved.
>
> Signed-off-by: Youquan Song<youquan.song@intel.com>
> ---


while your patch looks correct, I think the whole feature is wonky and 
likely ought to be removed...........


  reply	other threads:[~2010-11-05 11:49 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-11-05 15:19 [PATCH] cpufreq: Fix ondemand governor powersave_bias execution time misuse Youquan Song
2010-11-05 11:49 ` Arjan van de Ven [this message]
2010-11-08 14:45   ` Youquan Song
2010-11-08  4:32     ` Arjan van de Ven
2011-03-02  1:07 ` Andrew Morton
2011-03-02 18:58   ` Youquan Song
2011-03-02 16:00     ` Dave Jones

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