[PATCH v2 0/2] cpufreq support for the big.LITTLE switcher

Rafael J. Wysocki rjw at rjwysocki.net
Wed Oct 30 17:52:49 EDT 2013


On Wednesday, October 30, 2013 03:44:39 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.
> 
> This set (v2) was rebased on top of the latest linux-pm tree as
> requested by Rafael.

Queued up for 3.13, thanks!

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Rafael J. Wysocki, Intel Open Source Technology Center.



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