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Alexander Clouter
a75603a084 [CPUFREQ] conservative: remove 10x from def_sampling_rate
AMD users get particular hit by this issue (bug 8081) as it caps at
typically 90 seconds as the minimum period for a frequency change.
Harsh eh?  Years ago I borked this buy puting the 10x in the wrong
place...I fix that by removing it altogether.

Signed-off-by: Alexander Clouter <alex@digriz.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
2009-02-24 22:47:32 -05:00
Alexander Clouter
8e677ce83b [CPUFREQ] conservative: fixup governor to function more like ondemand logic
As conservative is based off ondemand the codebases occasionally need to be
resync'd.  This patch, although ugly, does this.

Signed-off-by: Alexander Clouter <alex@digriz.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
2009-02-24 22:47:32 -05:00
Alexander Clouter
f407a08bb7 [CPUFREQ] conservative: fix dbs_cpufreq_notifier so freq is not locked
When someone added the dbs_cpufreq_notifier section to the governor the
code ended up causing the frequency to only fall.  This is because
requested_freq is tinkered with and that should only modified if it has
an invlaid value due to changes in the available frequency ranges

This should fix #10055.

Signed-off-by: Alexander Clouter <alex@digriz.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
2009-02-24 22:47:32 -05:00
Alexander Clouter
11a80a9c76 [CPUFREQ] conservative: amend author's email address
Amend author's email address.

Signed-off-by: Alexander Clouter <alex@digriz.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
2009-02-24 22:47:31 -05:00
Thomas Renninger
112124ab0a [CPUFREQ] ondemand/conservative: sanitize sampling_rate restrictions
Limit sampling rate to transition_latency * 100 or kernel limits.
If sampling_rate is tried to be set too low, set the lowest allowed value.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Renninger <trenn@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
2009-02-24 22:47:31 -05:00
Thomas Renninger
9411b4ef7f [CPUFREQ] ondemand/conservative: deprecate sampling_rate{min,max}
The same info can be obtained via the transition_latency sysfs file

Signed-off-by: Thomas Renninger <trenn@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
2009-02-24 22:47:31 -05:00
Dave Jones
9acef48756 [CPUFREQ] checkpatch cleanups for conservative governor
Signed-off-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
2009-02-24 22:47:29 -05:00
Rusty Russell
835481d9bc cpumask: convert struct cpufreq_policy to cpumask_var_t
Impact: use new cpumask API to reduce memory usage

This is part of an effort to reduce structure sizes for machines
configured with large NR_CPUS.  cpumask_t gets replaced by
cpumask_var_t, which is either struct cpumask[1] (small NR_CPUS) or
struct cpumask * (large NR_CPUS).

Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Mike Travis <travis@sgi.com>
Acked-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-01-06 09:05:31 +01:00
Sven Wegener
c4d14bc0bb [CPUFREQ] Don't export governors for default governor
We don't need to export the governors for use as the default governor,
because the default governor will be built-in anyway and we can access
the symbol directly.

This also fixes the following sparse warnings:

drivers/cpufreq/cpufreq_conservative.c:578:25: warning: symbol 'cpufreq_gov_conservative' was not declared. Should it be static?
drivers/cpufreq/cpufreq_ondemand.c:582:25: warning: symbol 'cpufreq_gov_ondemand' was not declared. Should it be static?
drivers/cpufreq/cpufreq_performance.c:39:25: warning: symbol 'cpufreq_gov_performance' was not declared. Should it be static?
drivers/cpufreq/cpufreq_powersave.c:38:25: warning: symbol 'cpufreq_gov_powersave' was not declared. Should it be static?
drivers/cpufreq/cpufreq_userspace.c:190:25: warning: symbol 'cpufreq_gov_userspace' was not declared. Should it be static?

Signed-off-by: Sven Wegener <sven.wegener@stealer.net>
Signed-off-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
2008-10-09 13:52:44 -04:00
Ben Slusky
8217e4f4c9 [CPUFREQ] use deferrable delayed work init in conservative governor
Venki Pallipadi made a similar change to the ondemand governor a while
back (in commit 28287033e1). It seems to
work just as well in the conservative governor, leading to fewer wakeups
as reported by powertop.

Signed-off-by: Ben Slusky <sluskyb@paranoiacs.org>
Signed-off-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
2008-10-09 13:52:43 -04:00
Dave Jones
f068c04ba6 [CPUFREQ] Fix -Wshadow warning in conservative governor.
drivers/cpufreq/cpufreq_conservative.c:336:15: warning: symbol 'freq_step' shadows an earlier one

Just rename the local variable.

Signed-off-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
2008-08-08 16:00:48 -04:00
Mike Travis
068b12772a cpufreq: use performance variant for_each_cpu_mask_nr
Change references from for_each_cpu_mask to for_each_cpu_mask_nr
where appropriate

Reviewed-by: Paul Jackson <pj@sgi.com>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Mike Travis <travis@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2008-05-23 18:35:12 +02:00
Johannes Weiner
6915719b36 cpufreq: Initialise default governor before use
When the cpufreq driver starts up at boot time, it calls into the default
governor which might not be initialised yet.  This hurts when the
governor's worker function relies on memory that is not yet set up by its
init function.

This migrates all governors from module_init() to fs_initcall() when being
the default, as was already done in cpufreq_performance when it was the
only possible choice.  The performance governor is always initialized early
because it might be used as fallback even when not being the default.

Fixes at least one actual oops where ondemand is the default governor and
cpufreq_governor_dbs() uses the uninitialised kondemand_wq work-queue
during boot-time.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@saeurebad.de>
Cc: Dave Jones <davej@codemonkey.org.uk>
Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@sisk.pl>
Cc: Venkatesh Pallipadi <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com>
Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-01-17 15:38:58 -08:00
Dave Jones
18a7247d1b [CPUFREQ] Fix up whitespace in conservative governor.
Signed-off-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
2007-10-22 16:49:09 -04:00
Elias Oltmanns
a8d7c3bc23 [CPUFREQ] Make cpufreq_conservative handle out-of-sync events properly
Make cpufreq_conservative handle out-of-sync events properly

Currently, the cpufreq_conservative governor doesn't get notified when the
actual frequency the cpu is running at differs from what cpufreq thought it
was. As a result the cpu may stay at the maximum frequency after a s2ram /
resume cycle even though the system is idle.

Signed-off-by: Elias Oltmanns <eo@nebensachen.de>
Signed-off-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
2007-10-22 16:34:39 -04:00
Thomas Renninger
1c2562459f [CPUFREQ] allow ondemand and conservative cpufreq governors to be used as default
Depending on the transition latency of the HW for cpufreq switches, the
ondemand or conservative governor cannot be used with certain cpufreq
drivers.  Still the ondemand should be the default governor on a wide range
of systems.  This patch allows this and lets the governor fallback to the
performance governor at cpufreq driver load time, if the driver does not
support fast enough frequency switching.

Main benefit is that on e.g.  installation or other systems without
userspace support a working dynamic cpufreq support can be achieved on most
systems by simply loading the cpufreq driver.  This is especially essential
for recent x86(_64) laptop hardware which may rely on working dynamic
cpufreq OS support.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Renninger <trenn@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Venkatesh Pallipadi <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com>
Cc: Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Bryan Wu <bryan.wu@analog.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Cc: "Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@intel.com>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
2007-10-04 18:40:57 -04:00
Linus Torvalds
ef29498655 Merge master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davej/cpufreq
* master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davej/cpufreq:
  [CPUFREQ] Longhaul - Redo Longhaul ver. 2
  [CPUFREQ] EPS - Correct 2nd brand test
  [CPUFREQ] Longhaul - Separate frequency and voltage transition
  [CPUFREQ] Longhaul - Models of Nehemiah
  [CPUFREQ] Whitespace fixup
  [CPUFREQ] Longhaul - Simplier minmult
  [CPUFREQ] CPU_FREQ_TABLE shouldn't be a def_tristate
  [CPUFREQ] ondemand governor use new cpufreq rwsem locking in work callback
  [CPUFREQ] ondemand governor restructure the work callback
  [CPUFREQ] Rewrite lock in cpufreq to eliminate cpufreq/hotplug related issues
  [CPUFREQ] Remove hotplug cpu crap
  [CPUFREQ] Enhanced PowerSaver driver
  [CPUFREQ] Longhaul - Add VT8235 support
  [CPUFREQ] Longhaul - Fix guess_fsb function
  [CPUFREQ] Longhaul - Remove duplicate tables
  [CPUFREQ] Longhaul - Introduce Nehemiah C
  [CPUFREQ] fix cpuinfo_cur_freq for CPU_HW_PSTATE
  [CPUFREQ] Longhaul - Remove "ignore_latency" option
2007-02-16 08:16:01 -08:00
Tim Schmielau
cd354f1ae7 [PATCH] remove many unneeded #includes of sched.h
After Al Viro (finally) succeeded in removing the sched.h #include in module.h
recently, it makes sense again to remove other superfluous sched.h includes.
There are quite a lot of files which include it but don't actually need
anything defined in there.  Presumably these includes were once needed for
macros that used to live in sched.h, but moved to other header files in the
course of cleaning it up.

To ease the pain, this time I did not fiddle with any header files and only
removed #includes from .c-files, which tend to cause less trouble.

Compile tested against 2.6.20-rc2 and 2.6.20-rc2-mm2 (with offsets) on alpha,
arm, i386, ia64, mips, powerpc, and x86_64 with allnoconfig, defconfig,
allmodconfig, and allyesconfig as well as a few randconfigs on x86_64 and all
configs in arch/arm/configs on arm.  I also checked that no new warnings were
introduced by the patch (actually, some warnings are removed that were emitted
by unnecessarily included header files).

Signed-off-by: Tim Schmielau <tim@physik3.uni-rostock.de>
Acked-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-02-14 08:09:54 -08:00
Dave Jones
c120069779 [CPUFREQ] Remove hotplug cpu crap
The hotplug CPU locking in cpufreq is horrendous.  No-one seems to care
enough to fix it, so just remove it so that the 99.9% of the real world
users of this code can use cpufreq without being bothered by warnings.

Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
2007-02-10 20:01:47 -05:00
Dave Jones
c4366889dd Merge ../linus
Conflicts:

	drivers/cpufreq/cpufreq.c
2006-12-12 17:41:41 -05:00
David Howells
c4028958b6 WorkStruct: make allyesconfig
Fix up for make allyesconfig.

Signed-Off-By: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
2006-11-22 14:57:56 +00:00
Gautham R Shenoy
e08f5f5bb5 [CPUFREQ] Fix coding style issues in cpufreq.
Clean up cpufreq subsystem to fix coding style issues and to improve
the readability.

Signed-off-by: Gautham R Shenoy <ego@in.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
2006-11-06 19:16:34 -05:00
Jeff Garzik
914f7c31b0 [CPUFREQ] handle sysfs errors
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
2006-10-21 01:33:12 -04:00
Arjan van de Ven
153d7f3fca [PATCH] Reorganize the cpufreq cpu hotplug locking to not be totally bizare
The patch below moves the cpu hotplugging higher up in the cpufreq
layering; this is needed to avoid recursive taking of the cpu hotplug
lock and to otherwise detangle the mess.

The new rules are:
1. you must do lock_cpu_hotplug() around the following functions:
   __cpufreq_driver_target
   __cpufreq_governor (for CPUFREQ_GOV_LIMITS operation only)
   __cpufreq_set_policy
2. governer methods (.governer) must NOT take the lock_cpu_hotplug()
   lock in any way; they are called with the lock taken already
3. if your governer spawns a thread that does things, like calling
   __cpufreq_driver_target, your thread must honor rule #1.
4. the policy lock and other cpufreq internal locks nest within
   the lock_cpu_hotplug() lock.

I'm not entirely happy about how the __cpufreq_governor rule ended up
(conditional locking rule depending on the argument) but basically all
callers pass this as a constant so it's not too horrible.

The patch also removes the cpufreq_governor() function since during the
locking audit it turned out to be entirely unused (so no need to fix it)

The patch works on my testbox, but it could use more testing
(otoh... it can't be much worse than the current code)

Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-07-26 07:21:40 -07:00
Andrew Morton
138a0128c0 [PATCH] cpufreq build fix
drivers/cpufreq/cpufreq_ondemand.c: In function 'do_dbs_timer':
drivers/cpufreq/cpufreq_ondemand.c:374: warning: implicit declaration of function 'lock_cpu_hotplug'
drivers/cpufreq/cpufreq_ondemand.c:381: warning: implicit declaration of function 'unlock_cpu_hotplug'
drivers/cpufreq/cpufreq_conservative.c: In function 'do_dbs_timer':
drivers/cpufreq/cpufreq_conservative.c:425: warning: implicit declaration of function 'lock_cpu_hotplug'
drivers/cpufreq/cpufreq_conservative.c:432: warning: implicit declaration of function 'unlock_cpu_hotplug'

Cc: Dave Jones <davej@codemonkey.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-06-23 08:47:27 -07:00
Venkatesh Pallipadi
4ec223d02f [CPUFREQ] Fix ondemand vs suspend deadlock
Rootcaused the bug to a deadlock in cpufreq and ondemand. Due to non-existent
ordering between cpu_hotplug lock and dbs_mutex. Basically a race condition
between cpu_down() and do_dbs_timer().

cpu_down() flow:
* cpu_down() call for CPU 1
* Takes hot plug lock
* Calls pre down notifier
*     cpufreq notifier handler calls cpufreq_driver_target() which takes
      cpu_hotplug lock again. OK as cpu_hotplug lock is recursive in same
      process context
* CPU 1 goes down
* Calls post down notifier
*     cpufreq notifier handler calls ondemand event stop which takes dbs_mutex

So, cpu_hotplug lock is taken before dbs_mutex in this flow.

do_dbs_timer is triggerred by a periodic timer event.
It first takes dbs_mutex and then takes cpu_hotplug lock in
cpufreq_driver_target().
Note the reverse order here compared to above. So, if this timer event happens
at right moment during cpu_down, system will deadlok.

Attached patch fixes the issue for both ondemand and conservative.

Signed-off-by: Venkatesh Pallipadi <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
2006-06-21 18:30:26 -04:00
Dave Jones
b82fbe6c42 [CPUFREQ] Remove pointless check in conservative governor.
< 0 checks on unsigned variables are pointless.

Signed-off-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
2006-04-01 22:07:07 -05:00
Mattia Dongili
c326e27eb7 [CPUFREQ] cpufreq_conservative: keep ignore_nice_load and freq_step values when reselected
Keep the value of ignore_nice_load and freq_step of the conservative
governor after the governor is deselected and reselected.

Signed-off-by: Mattia Dongili <malattia@linux.it>
Signed-off-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
2006-03-28 12:20:18 -05:00
Alexander Clouter
a159b82770 [PATCH] cpufreq_conservative: alternative initialise approach
Venki, author of cpufreq_ondemand, came up with a neater way to remove the
initialiser code from the main loop of my code and out to the point when the
governor is actually initialised.

Not only does it look but it also feels cleaner, plus its simpler to
understand.  It also saves a bunch of pointless conditional statements in the
main loop.

Signed-off-by: Alexander Clouter <alex-kernel@digriz.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Dominik Brodowski <linux@dominikbrodowski.net>
2006-03-26 10:18:18 +02:00
Alexander Clouter
08a28e2e98 [PATCH] cpufreq_conservative: make for_each_cpu() safe
All these changes should make cpufreq_conservative safe in regards to the x86
for_each_cpu cpumask.h changes and whatnot.

Whilst making it safe a number of pointless for loops related to the cpu
mask's were removed.  I was never comfortable with all those for loops,
especially as the iteration is over the same data again and again for each
CPU you had in a single poll, an O(n^2) outcome to frequency scaling.

The approach I use is to assume by default no CPU's exist and it sets the
requested_freq to zero as a kind of flag, the reasoning is in the source ;)
If the CPU is queried and requested_freq is zero then it initialises the
variable to current_freq and then continues as if nothing happened which
should be the same net effect as before?

Signed-off-by: Alexander Clouter <alex-kernel@digriz.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Dominik Brodowski <linux@dominikbrodowski.net>
2006-03-26 10:14:54 +02:00
Alexander Clouter
e8a0257225 [PATCH] cpufreq_conservative: alter default responsiveness
The sensible approach to making conservative less responsive than ondemand :)
As mentioned in patch [1/4].  We do not want conservative to shoot through
all the frequencies, its point (by default) is to slowly move through them.

By default its ten times less responsive.

Signed-off-by: Alexander Clouter <alex-kernel@digriz.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Dominik Brodowski <linux@dominikbrodowski.net>
2006-03-26 10:13:21 +02:00
Alexander Clouter
2c906b317b [PATCH] cpufreq_conservative: aligning of codebase with ondemand
Since the conservative govenor was released its codebase has drifted from the
the direction and updates that have been applied to the ondemand govornor.

This patch addresses the lack of updates in that period and brings
conservative back up to date.  The resulting diff file between
cpufreq_ondemand.c and cpufreq_conservative.c is now much smaller and shows
more clearly the differences between the two.

Another reason to do this is ages ago, knowingly, I did a piss poor attempt
at making conservative less responsive by knocking up
DEF_SAMPLING_RATE_LATENCY_MULTIPLIER by two orders of magnitude.  I did fix
this ages ago but in my dis-organisation I must have toasted the diff and
left it the way it was.  About two weeks ago a user contacted me saying he
was having problems with the conservative governor with his AMD Athlon XP-M
2800+ as /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/cpufreq/conservative showed
  sampling_rate_min   9950000
  sampling_rate_max   1360065408

Nine seconds to decide about changing the frequency....not too responsive :)

Signed-off-by: Alexander Clouter <alex-kernel@digriz.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Dominik Brodowski <linux@dominikbrodowski.net>
2006-03-26 10:13:05 +02:00
akpm@osdl.org
3fc54d37ab [CPUFREQ] Convert drivers/cpufreq semaphores to mutexes.
Semaphore to mutex conversion.

The conversion was generated via scripts, and the result was validated
automatically via a script as well.

Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
2006-01-18 13:53:45 -08:00
Alexander Clouter
001893cda2 [PATCH] cpufreq_conservative/ondemand: invert meaning of 'ignore nice'
The use of the 'ignore_nice' sysfs file is confusing to anyone using it.
This removes the sysfs file 'ignore_nice' and in its place creates a
'ignore_nice_load' entry that defaults to '0'; meaning nice'd processes
_are_ counted towards the 'business' calculation.

WARNING: this obvious breaks any userland tools that expected ignore_nice'
to exist, to draw attention to this fact it was concluded on the mailing
list that the entry should be removed altogether so the userland app breaks
and so the author can build simple to detect workaround.  Having said that
it seems currently very few tools even make use of this functionality; all
I could find was a Gentoo Wiki entry.

Signed-off-by: Alexander Clouter <alex-kernel@digriz.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
2005-12-01 01:23:23 -08:00
Dave Jones
9273214409 [PATCH] cpufreq: SMP fix for conservative governor
Don't try to access not-present CPUs.  Conservative governor will always
oops on SMP without this fix.

Fixes http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=4781

Signed-off-by: Venkatesh Pallipadi <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-10-27 16:29:24 -07:00
Dave Jones
9c7d269b9b [CPUFREQ] ondemand,conservative governor idle_tick clean-up
[PATCH] [3/5] ondemand,conservative governor idle_tick clean-up

Ondemand and conservative governor clean-up, it factorises the idle ticks 
measurement.

Signed-off-by: Eric Piel <eric.piel@tremplin-utc.net>
Signed-off-by: Venkatesh Pallipadi <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
2005-05-31 19:03:49 -07:00
Dave Jones
790d76fa97 [CPUFREQ] ondemand,conservative governor store the idle ticks for all cpus
[PATCH] [2/5] ondemand,conservative governor store the idle ticks for all cpus

Ondemand, conservative governor did not store prev_cpu_idle_up into 
prev_cpu_idle_down for other CPUs than the current CPU.

Signed-off-by: Eric Piel <eric.piel@tremplin-utc.net>
Signed-off-by: Venkatesh Pallipadi <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
2005-05-31 19:03:49 -07:00
Dave Jones
dac1c1a562 [CPUFREQ] ondemand,conservative minor bug-fix and cleanup
[PATCH] [1/5] ondemand,conservative minor bug-fix and cleanup

Attached patch fixes some minor issues with Alexander's patch and related
cleanup in both ondemand and conservative governor.

Signed-off-by: Venkatesh Pallipadi <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
2005-05-31 19:03:49 -07:00
Dave Jones
b9170836d1 [CPUFREQ] Conservative cpufreq governer
A new cpufreq module, based on the ondemand one with my additional patches
just posted.  This one is more suitable for battery environments where its
probably more appealing to have the cpu freq gracefully increase and decrease
rather than flip between the min and max freq's.

N.B. Bruno Ducrot pointed out that the amd64's "do have unacceptable latency
between min and max freq transition, due to the step-by-step requirements
(200MHz IIRC)"; so AMD64 users would probably benefit from this too.

Signed-off-by: Alexander Clouter <alex-kernel@digriz.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
2005-05-31 19:03:47 -07:00