Re: [Query]: CPUFREQ: Affected and related cpus in cpufreq

2012-10-10 Thread Viresh Kumar
On 10 October 2012 19:14, Sudeep KarkadaNagesha wrote: > Here is my understanding on this patch. This change is closely related > to ACPI cpufreq driver(used mostly on Intel cores). This change was > introduced to keep track of the related cpus as returned by ACPI > firmware along with affected cp

Re: [Query]: CPUFREQ: Affected and related cpus in cpufreq

2012-10-10 Thread Sudeep KarkadaNagesha
On 10/10/12 14:26, Viresh Kumar wrote: [...] I couldn't understand the difference b/w h/w and s/w coordination. What do we mean by them here. Following patch added related related_cpu stuff: commit e8628dd06d66f2e3965ec9742029b401d63434f1 Author: Darrick J. Wong Date: Fri Apr 18 13:31:12 20

Re: [Query]: CPUFREQ: Affected and related cpus in cpufreq

2012-10-10 Thread Viresh Kumar
On 10 October 2012 17:31, Sudeep KarkadaNagesha wrote: > On 08/10/12 14:58, viresh kumar wrote: >> affected_cpus(policy->cpus): >> - List of CPUs that require software coordination of frequency. >> - Processors part of affected_cpus share policy struct >> - Policy limits the frequencies that the

Re: [Query]: CPUFREQ: Affected and related cpus in cpufreq

2012-10-10 Thread Sudeep KarkadaNagesha
Hi Viresh, On 08/10/12 14:58, viresh kumar wrote: Hi All, Sorry for asking one of the most basic question of cpufreq :( I couldn't get the difference between affected (policy->cpus) and related cpus (policy->related_cpus) in cpufreq... As per Documentation/code: affected_cpus(policy->cpus):

[Query]: CPUFREQ: Affected and related cpus in cpufreq

2012-10-08 Thread viresh kumar
Hi All, Sorry for asking one of the most basic question of cpufreq :( I couldn't get the difference between affected (policy->cpus) and related cpus (policy->related_cpus) in cpufreq... As per Documentation/code: affected_cpus(policy->cpus): - List of CPUs that require software coordination of