Re: [PATCH V3 2/2] cpufreq: AMD "frequency sensitivity feedback" powersave bias for ondemand governor

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On Wed, Apr 03, 2013 at 07:04:56PM +0200, Borislav Petkov wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 03, 2013 at 11:53:24AM -0500, Jacob Shin wrote:
> > Then Thomas, Boris, would it be acceptable if enable the frequency
> > feedback feature by default with a sane powersave_bias tunable value?
> > And also add proper documentation for both vanila powersave_bias
> > and powersave_bias with AMD frequency sensitivity loaded to
> > Documentation/cpu-freq/ondemand ?
> 
> Yeah, this was what I was proposing, basically. The only question here
> is, would anyone want to disable freq decisions on systems with hw
> feedback? If yes, then you'd need to be able to disable the feedback
> thing, maybe have a magic value for powersave_bias...

Writing 0 to powersave_bias or unloading the AMD driver could do that.

When the AMD driver loads, it will give a sane default value to
powersave_bias to enable it, when it unloads, it will put it back to 0

> 
> Thanks.
> 
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>     Boris.
> 
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