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Date: Mon, 24 Jun 2013 13:00:41 +0200 From: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@...k.pl> To: Chanwoo Choi <cw00.choi@...sung.com> Cc: Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@...aro.org>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Kyungmin Park <kyungmin.park@...sung.com>, Myungjoo Ham <myungjoo.ham@...sung.com> Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] cpufreq: stats: Add 'load_table' debugfs file to show accumulated data of CPUs On Monday, June 24, 2013 04:03:15 PM Viresh Kumar wrote: > On 24 June 2013 15:50, Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@...k.pl> wrote: > > My impression was that that new interface wouldn't be useful on all platforms > > supported by cpufreq. If that's the case, I'd rather not make changes in the > > core code that are needed only to implement that new interface, at least to > > start with. > > Every platform might not have userspace software that would do some > actions based on this. But, these are nice and useful stats to have. > > They tell you a lot about how the hardware/governor/policies are > behaving with load. And so will eventually help getting performance based > on governor tunables for your platform. That's why I asked to put this in > core as this should be pretty much useful. OK, let's see how the code will look like. Chanwoo, please prepare a v4 with the changes suggested by Viresh. Thanks, Rafael -- I speak only for myself. Rafael J. Wysocki, Intel Open Source Technology Center. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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