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SubjectRe: [PATCH] 3/3 Dynamic cpufreq governor and updates to ACPIP-state driver
On Tue, Oct 21, 2003 at 08:47:51AM -0700, Nakajima, Jun wrote:
> >
> > it's all nice code and such, but I still wonder why this can't be done
> > by a userland policy daemon. The 2.6 kernel has the infrastructure to
> > give very detailed information to userspace (eg top etc) about idle
> > percentages...... I didn't see anything in this driver that couldn't
> be
> > done from userspace.
> >
>
> It's about the frequency of the feedback loop. As we have much lower
> latency with P-state transitions, the sampling time can be order of
> millisecond (or shorter if meaningful). A userland daemon can have a
> high-level policy (preferences, or set of parameters), but it cannot be
> part of the real feedback loop. If we combine P-state transitions and
> deeper C-state transitions, the situation is worse with a userland
> daemon.


As I said the CURRENT code doesn't seem to do that. I can see the use of
in kernel hooks in to thigs; for example the scheduler could do an upcall
to the cpufreq core if a task uses it's timeslice completely (which would
be a sign that things need to go to a higher speed). I'd be very
interested to see things like that.
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