From: Con Kolivas <kernel@kolivas.org>
To: Dominik Brodowski <linux@dominikbrodowski.net>
Subject: Re: fix cpufreq-ondemand by accounting skipped ticks as idle ticks [Was: [PATCH] i386 no idle HZ aka Dynticks 051203]
Date: Mon, 5 Dec 2005 13:02:57 +1100
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On Sunday 04 December 2005 23:24, Dominik Brodowski wrote:
> Account ticks skipped dynamically as idle ticks.
>
> This allows the ondemand cpufreq governor to work correctly with dyntick.

Dominik one thing I noticed a while back was that ondemand also polls at a 
frequency that creates a timer at around 140 HZ. Tweaking the ondemand/ 
tunables and making it poll ten times less frequently made a big difference 
to this (obviously) but did obviously slow down the scaling speed - this was 
the frequency required to bring it to that of the background timers (<=20HZ). 
I see scope for this polling to be dynamic too :D

Cheers,
Con
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