Re: [PATCH v2] cpufreq: ondemand: handle SW coordinated CPUs

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2012/3/9 Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:

> From: Rickard Andersson <rickard.andersson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> This patch fixes a bug that occured when we had load on
> a secondary CPU and the primary CPU was sleeping. Only
> one sampling timer was spawned and it was spawned as a
> deferred timer on the primary CPU, so when a secondary CPU
> had a change in load this was not detected by the ondemand
> governor.
>
> This patch make sure that deferred timers are run on all
> CPUs in the case of software controlled CPUs that run on
> the same frequency.
>
> Signed-off-by: Rickard Andersson <rickard.andersson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Reviewed-by: Mian Yousaf Kaukab <mian.yousaf.kaukab@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Reviewed-by: Jonas Aberg <jonas.aberg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@xxxxxxxxxx>

Ping on this. This is a very real problem to us so we'd like to
get some feedback on this...

Yours,
Linus Walleij
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