Re: [linux-usb-devel] [4/4] 2.6.23-rc3: known regressions

[Linus Torvalds]

On Mon, 20 Aug 2007, Arjan van de Ven wrote:
> 
> untested patch to add this to cpufreq; this is probably a good idea in
> general even if using the latency framework doesn't end up being used
> for fixing this regression...
> 
> 
> --- linux-2.6.23-rc2/drivers/cpufreq/cpufreq.c.org	2007-08-20 22:58:32.000000000 -0700
> +++ linux-2.6.23-rc2/drivers/cpufreq/cpufreq.c	2007-08-20 23:02:21.000000000 -0700
> @@ -1604,6 +1604,12 @@ static int __cpufreq_set_policy(struct c
>  	if (ret)
>  		goto error_out;
>  
> +
> +	if (system_latency_constraint() < policy->cpuinfo.transition_latency) {

That looks broken. "system_latency_constraint()" is in us, but 
transition_latency is in ns, afaik.

But adding a "/ 1000" to turn the ns into us, and it migth even work.

		Linus
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