[PATCH 0/2] cpufreq support for the big.LITTLE switcher

Rafael J. Wysocki rjw at rjwysocki.net
Wed Oct 30 10:01:05 EDT 2013


On Tuesday, October 22, 2013 11:58:09 PM Nicolas Pitre wrote:
> This is the third and final set of patches towards a fully functional
> and production quality switcher solution for big.LITTLE systems,
> establishing a landmark to compare against for any scheduler based
> solution meant to eventually surpass the switcher's power efficiency
> available in the mainline kernel.
> 
> Rationale for this code: http://lwn.net/Articles/481055/
> 
> The first and second patch sets have already been merged by RMK.  They
> implement the core switcher mechanism.  This set adds the necessary code
> to drive the switcher based on cpufreq governor decisions.

Patch [1/2] doesn't apply any more after all of the recent changes from Viresh.

Please rebase on top of linux-pm/linux-next and resend.

Thanks!

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Rafael J. Wysocki, Intel Open Source Technology Center.



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