Re: [PATCH V4 2/2] cpufreq: AMD "frequency sensitivity feedback"powersave bias for ondemand governor

From: Borislav Petkov
Date: Thu Apr 04 2013 - 15:23:36 EST


On Thu, Apr 04, 2013 at 11:19:04AM -0500, Jacob Shin wrote:
> Future AMD processors, starting with Family 16h, can provide software
> with feedback on how the workload may respond to frequency change --
> memory-bound workloads will not benefit from higher frequency, where
> as compute-bound workloads will. This patch enables this "frequency
> sensitivity feedback" to aid the ondemand governor to make better
> frequency change decisions by hooking into the powersave bias.
>
> Signed-off-by: Jacob Shin <jacob.shin@xxxxxxx>

Looks good to me.

Acked-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@xxxxxxx>

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Boris.

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