Re: [patch 1/4] cpufreq_conservative: update and align of codebase

[Andrew Morton]

Alexander Clouter <alex@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> *NEW* patches, for kernel 2.6.16
> 
>  Something I had been meaning to do for a while.  The codebases between
>  ondemand and conservative have strayed and as Venkatesh has far more Clue(tm)
>  than I am going to adjust my code to look more like his :)
> 
>  Another reason to do this is ages ago, knowingly, I did a piss poor attempt
>  at making conservative less responsive by knocking up
>  DEF_SAMPLING_RATE_LATENCY_MULTIPLIER by two orders of magnitude.  I did fix
>  this ages ago but in my dis-organisation I must have toasted the diff and
>  left it the way it was.  About two weeks ago a user contacted me saying he
>  was having problems with the conservative governor with his AMD Athlon XP-M
>  2800+ as /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/cpufreq/conservative showed
>    sampling_rate_min   9950000
>    sampling_rate_max   1360065408
> 
>  Nine seconds to decide about changing the frequency....not too responsive :)

umm, that's not really a changelog.  Please, see
http://www.zip.com.au/~akpm/linux/patches/stuff/tpp.txt.  Section 2a is
relevant too..

Thanks.
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