[PATCH] ARM: Don't ever downscale loops_per_jiffy in SMP systems#

Viresh Kumar viresh.kumar at linaro.org
Wed May 14 23:12:44 PDT 2014


On 14 May 2014 03:20, Doug Anderson <dianders at chromium.org> wrote:
> ...but then I found the true problem shows up when we transition
> between very low frequencies on exynos, like between 200MHz and
> 300MHz.  While transitioning between frequencies the system
> temporarily bumps over to the "switcher" PLL running at 800MHz while
> waiting for the main PLL to stabilize.  No CPUFREQ notification is
> sent for that.  That means there's a period of time when we're running
> at 800MHz but loops_per_jiffy is calibrated at between 200MHz and
> 300MHz.
>
>
> I'm welcome to any suggestions for how to address this.

I have attempted to fix this in a generic way and sent an RFC patch for
this. I have cc'd only few people from this list which I thought would be
interested in cpufreq stuff, sorry if I missed anyone.

https://lkml.org/lkml/2014/5/15/40



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