Re: Ondemand core specific variables

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On Thursday 20 May 2010 23:09:52 Chidambaram, Praveen wrote:
> > These variables were removed and put into general sysfs dir because:
> >   - They never were per_cpu based
> >   - No need was seen to make them per cpu based ones
> >   - We should be able to get rid of an ugly lock
> > I could imagine someone wants to increase min_freq on specific 
cores,
> > e.g. for real time/low latency and that is possible.
> I agree. They were not initally designed for different cores. Butif 
> the CPUs are going to be different,
It's not a good idea to mix up different CPU types in a SMP machine.
Even if that is possible, they should be that similar that different
cpufreq settings do not make sense.

> then it would make sense to have 
> CPU specific parameters for up thresholds, sampling_rates etc.

   Thomas
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