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

[Stratos Karafotis]

On 04/05/2013 10:50 PM, Stratos Karafotis wrote:
> Hi Viresh,
>
> On 04/04/2013 07:54 AM, Viresh Kumar wrote:
> > Hi Stratos,
> >
> > Yes, your results show some improvements. BUT if performance is the only thing
> > we were looking for, then we will never use ondemand governor but performance
> > governor.
> >
> > I suspect this little increase in performance must have increased power numbers
> > too (significantly). So, if you can get numbers in the form of power/performance
> > with and without your patch, it will be great.
> >
> > --
> > viresh
>
> I run some more tests. I increased the number of iterations to 100 (from 20).
> I also test for counter 1,000,000 (~4200us), 5,000,000 (~10000us), 15,000,000 (~30000us).
>
> This time, I also extracted statistics from cpufreq_stats driver. I think this will be an
> indication for power consumption. Below the results and attached the program I used for to
> get these numbers.

Any comments would be appreciated.

Thanks,
Stratos


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