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authorStratos Karafotis <stratosk@semaphore.gr>2013-03-06 02:06:29 +0400
committerRafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>2013-04-01 03:11:35 +0400
commit7af1c0568d33339318c6710381921a3a3d40eebb (patch)
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parent9366d84052e7c5b2eca804c08cfcd00b490f4de2 (diff)
downloadlinux-7af1c0568d33339318c6710381921a3a3d40eebb.tar.xz
cpufreq: conservative: Fix sampling_down_factor functionality
sampling_down_factor tunable is unused since commit 8e677ce83bf41ba9c74e5b6d9ee60b07d4e5ed93 (4 years ago). This patch restores the original functionality and documents the tunable. Signed-off-by: Stratos Karafotis <stratosk@semaphore.gr> Acked-by: Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@linaro.org> Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
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@@ -191,6 +191,12 @@ governor but for the opposite direction. For example when set to its
default value of '20' it means that if the CPU usage needs to be below
20% between samples to have the frequency decreased.
+sampling_down_factor: similar functionality as in "ondemand" governor.
+But in "conservative", it controls the rate at which the kernel makes
+a decision on when to decrease the frequency while running in any
+speed. Load for frequency increase is still evaluated every
+sampling rate.
+
3. The Governor Interface in the CPUfreq Core
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