linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH V3 2/5] cpufreq: ondemand: update sampling rate immediately

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Message-ID: <20151028154729.GI3716@ubuntu>
Date:	Wed, 28 Oct 2015 21:17:29 +0530
From:	Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@...aro.org>
To:	"Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@...ysocki.net>
Cc:	linaro-kernel@...ts.linaro.org, linux-pm@...r.kernel.org,
	open list <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH V3 2/5] cpufreq: ondemand: update sampling rate
 immediately

On 28-10-15, 17:13, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
> Well, the second statement above sort of contradicts the first one. :-)
> 
> I guess the answer is "it is problematic, because I can't do the other
> optimization then".

Hehe, right.

> To that I'd really suggest trying to rework the code to use timer
> functions directly in the first place.

I will, but this problem will be present there as well. Because at
that point of time, we will talk about per-cpu timers instead of
delayed-works.

-- 
viresh
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