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SubjectRe: [PATCH] regulator: notify sysfs when voltage is set
On Thu, Mar 15, 2012 at 02:47:08PM +0000, Mark Brown wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 15, 2012 at 11:26:58PM +0900, Simon Horman wrote:
> > On Thu, Mar 15, 2012 at 12:46:31PM +0000, Mark Brown wrote:
>
> > > I notice that we don't generate similar events for cpufreq... what are
> > > the performance implications from firing off udev (which isn't free)
> > > every time we scale the CPU frequency? It feels like this might be
> > > disruptive, especially with a governor like ondemand which responds to
> > > system load.
>
> > that is a good point and to be honest not one that I had considered. For
> > the use-case that I have in mind, which is basically to log voltage changes
> > over time, it may be acceptable to rate-limit notifications somehow. But at
> > that point I may be better off just polling.
>
> Hrm, if you're doing logging then we do already have tracepoints defined
> for voltage changes - could you have your application work with those
> instead of sysfs? One of the applications of tracepoints is flight
> recorder style system monitoring.

Thanks, that does sound like it would work for me.
I'll look into it further.

> > Out of interest, how often can ondemand potentially change the voltage?
>
> Depends on how slow it thinks frequency changes are. I'm not so worried
> about the performance impact from that point of view, I'm more worried
> about what happens when we lower the clock frequency and generate a
> sysfs event causing userspace to wake up and start doing stuff. It'd be
> bad if ondemand (or another dynamic governor) noticed that the system
> got more busy again and responded by ramping the frequency...

Ok, understood, that could be a bit nasty.




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