Re: [patch 2/2] x86: Manage ENERGY_PERF_BIAS based on cpufreqgovernor - v2

From: Dave Jones
Date: Thu Mar 04 2010 - 18:28:40 EST


On Thu, Mar 04, 2010 at 03:14:56PM -0800, Venki Pallipadi wrote:

> + if (!strncmp(gov->name, "performance", strlen("performance")))
> + epb_val = ENERGY_PERF_BIAS_PERF;
> + else if (!strncmp(gov->name, "powersave", strlen("powersave")))
> + epb_val = ENERGY_PERF_BIAS_POWER;
> + else
> + epb_val = ENERGY_PERF_BIAS_ONDEMAND;
> +
> + set_epb_on_cpu(epb_val, cpu);
> + return 0;

hardcoding a list of cpufreq governors is kinda icky, but I don't have
a better solution. We'll just have to be mindful of it if we ever
get around to finally making performance/powersave personalities
of ondemand as was discussed years ago.

What if the governor is set to 'userspace' ?
powernowd/cpufreqd are sort of ondemand-done-in-userspace, but there
may also be other userspace governors we don't know about.
I suppose it's not catastrophic..

Dave

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