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Message-Id: <200906111204.48441.rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Date: Thu, 11 Jun 2009 12:04:47 +0930
From: Rusty Russell <rusty@...tcorp.com.au>
To: "Langsdorf, Mark" <mark.langsdorf@....com>
Cc: "Linus Torvalds" <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
"Yinghai Lu" <yinghai@...nel.org>, "Avi Kivity" <avi@...hat.com>,
"Ingo Molnar" <mingo@...e.hu>,
"Andrew Morton" <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
"Thomas Gleixner" <tglx@...utronix.de>,
"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
"Dave Jones" <davej@...hat.com>, cpufreq@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/6] x86/cpufreq: use cpumask_copy instead of =
On Thu, 11 Jun 2009 05:12:16 am Langsdorf, Mark wrote:
> > powernow_k8_target is problematic: it grabs a mutex. cpufreq
> > people, is this called often?
>
> Yes. It's the function that makes a frequency change
> happen, so 5+ times per second per core isn't
> unreasonable.
Right, so we need to revisit this. I'll leave it for the moment and put it on
my TODO list.
Thanks,
Rusty.
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