[PATCH 5/5] ARM: exynos: enable/disable cpuidle when cpu1 is down/up

Kukjin Kim kgene.kim at samsung.com
Thu Jan 17 22:51:31 EST 2013


Daniel Lezcano wrote:
> 
> On 01/10/2013 11:33 PM, amit daniel kachhap wrote:
> > On Thu, Jan 10, 2013 at 1:32 PM, Daniel Lezcano <daniel.lezcano at free.fr>
> wrote:
> >> On 01/10/2013 09:07 PM, amit daniel kachhap wrote:
> >>> Hi Daniel,
> >>
> >> Hi Amit Daniel,
> >>
> >>> This hotplug noifiers looks fine. I suppose it should add extra state
> >>> C1 in cpu0. If it is done like below than for normal cases(when all
> >>> cpu's are online) there wont be any statistics for C0 state
> >>
> >> I guess you meant state 0 which is WFI, right ?
> >> C0 state is the intel semantic for cpu fully turned on.
> > Yes I meant C0 as wfi
> >>
> >>> also which
> >>> is required. Other patches look good.
> >>
> >> Ok, that makes sense to have statistics even if they are only doing WFI.
> >>
> >> Then the patch 4/5 is not ok, no ?
> > yes I suppose patch 4 and patch 5 are related and depends how you
> > frame patch 5. I think it is better to create C0/C1 sysfs and other
> > things in the beginning because it is a filesystem call and may
> > increase the cpu hotplug time which is not worth. May be if cpuidle
> > framework exposes some API to enable/disable states then it is better.
> >
> > For patch 1,2 and 3,
> > Acked-by: Amit Daniel Kachhap <amit.daniel at samsung.com>
> 
> Hi Kukjin,
> 
> is it possible to take these patches [1-3/5] ?
> 
Looks OK to me, I will apply with Amit's ack.

> The patches [3-4/5] could be ignored.
> 
Probably, you mean [4-5/5] :-)

Thanks.

- Kukjin




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