Re: cpuidle future and improvements

From: Daniel Lezcano
Date: Mon Jun 25 2012 - 08:54:02 EST


On 06/18/2012 08:15 PM, Colin Cross wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 18, 2012 at 1:40 AM, Daniel Lezcano
> <daniel.lezcano@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> I propose to host a cpuidle-next tree where all these modifications will
>> be and where people can send patches against, preventing last minutes
>> conflicts and perhaps Lenb will agree to pull from this tree. In the
>> meantime, the tree will be part of the linux-next, the patches will be
>> more widely tested and could be fixed earlier.
>
> My coupled cpuidle patches were acked and temporarily in Len's
> next/Linus pull branch, but were later dropped when the first pull
> request to Linus was rejected. I asked Len to either put the coupled
> cpuidle patches into his next branch, or let me host them so people
> could base SoC branches off of them and let Len pull them later, but
> got no response. If you do start a cpuidle for-next branch, can you
> pull my coupled-cpuidle branch:
>
> The following changes since commit 76e10d158efb6d4516018846f60c2ab5501900bc:
>
> Linux 3.4 (2012-05-20 15:29:13 -0700)
>
> are available in the git repository at:
> https://android.googlesource.com/kernel/common.git coupled-cpuidle
>
> Colin Cross (4):
> cpuidle: refactor out cpuidle_enter_state
> cpuidle: fix error handling in __cpuidle_register_device
> cpuidle: add support for states that affect multiple cpus
> cpuidle: coupled: add parallel barrier function
>
> drivers/cpuidle/Kconfig | 3 +
> drivers/cpuidle/Makefile | 1 +
> drivers/cpuidle/coupled.c | 715 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> drivers/cpuidle/cpuidle.c | 68 ++++-
> drivers/cpuidle/cpuidle.h | 32 ++
> include/linux/cpuidle.h | 11 +
> 6 files changed, 813 insertions(+), 17 deletions(-)
> create mode 100644 drivers/cpuidle/coupled.c


Done.

http://git.linaro.org/gitweb?p=people/dlezcano/cpuidle-next.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/cpuidle-next


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