Subject: Re: [RFC/RFT][PATCH v4 1/2] cpufreq: New governor using utilization
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From: Steve Muckle <steve.muckle@linaro.org>
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On 03/02/2016 07:20 PM, Steve Muckle wrote:
> Why does the frequency value not help? It is true there may be issues of
> a workload being memory bound and not responding quite linearly to
> increasing frequency, but that would pose a problem for the current
> algorithm also. Surely it's better to attempt a consistent policy which
> doesn't vary based on a platform's fmin value?

FWIW I'm not trying to hold up this series - rather just discuss
possibilities and differences with the now deprecated solution that may
be able to be integrated here sometime in the near future.