On 30 November 2012 19:00, Andrey Konovalov <andrey.konova...@linaro.org> wrote: > On 11/30/2012 02:23 PM, Viresh Kumar wrote: >> >> On 30 November 2012 15:22, Jon Medhurst (Tixy) <t...@linaro.org> wrote: >>> >>> But if they aren't different why do we need your version? > > To my understanding, having a separate topic for the interactive governor > makes sense if some people need this governor, but do not want the rest of > android code in their kernel. Viresh, is this the case? This seems to > contradict with the initial idea of the single kernel tree (where all the > releases should be made from), but may be valuable for the LTs/members and > for some development work. > > Viresh, > I'd like an explicit answer to why do we need a separate topic for the > interactive governor (in addition to the android one). We must be sure we > would do that extra work for a reason.
The basic idea was: Everybody from ARM/Linaro/Maybe somebody else, should use the same and the latest version of this governor. And a lot of stuff really depends on it, all power measurements etc.. I have seen people using Tixy's tree (for-example) for their tests and this governor is only present in his android branch. Over that, what if somebody doesn't want to get linux-linaro or android stuff in kernel and yet want to use power with interactive governor. That's it. >> https://android.googlesource.com/kernel/common > > So it is from the same source as the android topic for llct. > Just the topic by Viresh is a bit more recent, and is a few commits ahead of > the android topic currently merged into llct. > >>>> Over that it would be available for ubuntu also. This governor actually need somewhat better refresh rate. As it affects the way cpus behave in our tests. >>> I just wanted to chime in and make sure that people knew that there >>> could be issues, because these things have a nasty habit of cropping up >>> a few days before a monthly release, when there is little time to fix >>> and test things. > > Viresh, I accept. Just to mention, i didn't wanted this to get in for this release. >> @John/Andrey: Current linux-linaro surely doesn't have latest interactive >> governor in it. How do you guys suggest to get over this issue? I have few >> ideas: >> - John pull it from my tree, and i will keep an eye on AOSP > > ... the problem here is that AOSP is not the interactive governor only. > John (or the other "Android topic guy") would have to keep an eye on the > rest of AOSP. Keeping two pars of eyes on the same thing requires > coordination. Or are you volunteering to take over the android topic? :) No, i am not volunteering for it. But after getting android stuff from AOSP, what's the harm in pulling my branch. >> - John directly pick patches from AOSP > > ... and again, then you and the "Android topic guy" must synchronize > somehow. No. In that case i will not keep this in my tree. But it would be difficult for the android guy to keep an eye on interactive governor updates. -- viresh _______________________________________________ linaro-dev mailing list linaro-dev@lists.linaro.org http://lists.linaro.org/mailman/listinfo/linaro-dev
