Re: Issues with ondemand governor

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On Mon, 29 Nov 2010, David C Niemi wrote:

> I certainly have no objections to it going into the Linaro tree, though
> I was hoping to get it into the main kernel tree too.

What might prevent it from going into mainline at the moment, if 
anything?

> Christian Robottom Reis wrote:
> > On Mon, Nov 22, 2010 at 11:09:03AM -0500, David C Niemi wrote:
> >   
> >> The general problem here is that the ondemand governor is aimed more at
> >> power savings than performance.  In cases where the ondemand governor
> >> performs worse than the performance governor, the "sampling_down_factor"
> >> tunable is often useful.  I submitted the patch to add this tunable a
> >> few weeks ago and it was acked by Venki, but I don't know what happened
> >> to it after that.
> >>     
> >
> > Would you like to get it merged into linux-linaro? Given it's been ack'd
> > I think Nicolas might be willing to consider it:
> >
> >     http://kerneltrap.org/mailarchive/linux-kernel/2010/10/6/4628889/thread
> >   
> 
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