[PATCH v4 5/5] arm: exynos: Add MCPM call-back functions

Andrew Bresticker abrestic at chromium.org
Fri May 2 11:23:51 PDT 2014


>> +     /*
>> +      * TODO: Turn off the clusters when all cores in the cluster
>> +      * are down to achieve significant power savings.
>> +      */
>
> This comment should actually be located right after the
> "if (exynos_cluster_unused(cluster))" above.  That is where the cluster
> control should be applied, assuming it'll be effective only when WFI is
> executed.

Correct me if I'm wrong Samsung folks, but I thought it was not
possible to apply cluster power control from a CPU within the cluster
being powered down, i.e. a CPU in the other cluster must be the one to
apply the cluster power control to power down the outbound cluster.

-Andrew



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