Date: Wed, 23 May 2007 14:15:24 +0200
From: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
To: "Pallipadi, Venkatesh" <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>,
       =?iso-8859-1?Q?Bj=F6rn?= Steinbrink <B.Steinbrink@gmx.de>,
       "Brown, Len" <len.brown@intel.com>, tglx@linutronix.de, mingo@elte.hu,
       "Zhu, Yi" <yi.zhu@intel.com>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
       arjan@infradead.org, trenn@suse.de
Subject: Re: Increased ipw2200 power usage with dynticks
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> The current idea is that we will have multiple governors changeable at run time only for
> DEBUG and DEVELOPMENT. On a standard end user system there will be one governor
> (current optimal governor) that will be loaded. This gives
> flexibality to experiments with governors and also easily have different governors for
> different kind of platforms - in future if needed (handheld v/s laptop v/s server).
> Also, there are no overheads at runtime due to the fact that we have underlying infrastructure
> to have multiple governors (no locking overheads and such).

For testing/debugging you could just use some ifdefs, right? 

-Andi
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