Re: [PATCH 2/5] cpuidle/idle: Move the cpuidle_idle_call function to idle.c

[Daniel Lezcano]

On 02/12/2014 11:43 AM, Preeti U Murthy wrote:
> Hi Daniel,
>
> On 02/11/2014 08:41 PM, Daniel Lezcano wrote:
> > The cpuidle_idle_call does nothing more than calling the three individuals
> > function and is no longer used by any arch specific code but only in the
> > cpuidle framework code.
> >
> > We can move this function into the idle task code to ensure better
> > proximity to the scheduler code.
>
> So my understanding of this patchset is that by moving
> cpuidle_idle_call() under kernel/sched, we now have a way of calling
> into the cpuidle governor and the cpuidle driver with additional
> parameters like cpu_load(), idle_stamp etc.. so that we can expect the
> governor and driver to take better decisions about entry and exit into
> idle states. Is this the advantage we hope to begin with?

Yes, right.


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