Re: [PATCH v3 linux-next] cpufreq: ondemand: Calculate gradient ofCPU load to early increase frequency

[Viresh Kumar]

On 21 February 2013 23:09, Stratos Karafotis <stratosk@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Thanks again. Following V3 with your suggestion.
>
> Regards,
> Stratos
>
> -----------------------8<--------------------------------------------
> Instead of checking only the absolute value of CPU load_freq to increase
> frequency, we detect forthcoming CPU load rise and increase frequency
> earlier.
>
> Every sampling rate, we calculate the gradient of load_freq. If it is
> too steep we assume that the load most probably will go over
> up_threshold in next iteration(s) and we increase frequency immediately.
>
> New tuners are introduced:
> - early_demand: to enable this functionality (disabled by default).
> - grad_up_threshold: over this gradient of load we will increase
> frequency immediately.
>
> Signed-off-by: Stratos Karafotis <stratosk@xxxxxxxxxxxx>

Acked-by: Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@xxxxxxxxxx>
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