Re: [PATCH] cpufreq: conservative: fix requested_freq reduction issue

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2013/11/8 Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@xxxxxxxxxx>:
> On 8 November 2013 10:31, Xiaoguang Chen <chenxg.marvell@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> Hi, Viresh, Sorry for the late reply.
>
> That's fine :)
>
>> I'll prepare the patch.
>
> Thanks.
>
>> BTW, do you think we should set requeste_freq to policy->max when such
>> condition happens?
>
> I thought about that earlier, but then thought this would be a cleaner solution.
> And guess what, I was wrong.. There is one scenario for which we need to
> set requested_freq correctly..
>
> Suppose we have requested_freq currently greater than policy->max and load
> decreases. We will start decreasing requested_freq but it will take
> one iteration
> to make it equal to max, which is not we want.. So we actually need to set
> it to max when it gets over it.
>
> So, don't do the change I asked for, i.e. replacing == with >=. But
> update existing
> code:
>
> dbs_info->requested_freq += get_freq_target(cs_tuners, policy);
>
> this way:
>
> dbs_info->requested_freq += get_freq_target(cs_tuners, policy);
> if (dbs_info->requested_freq > policy->max)
>     dbs_info->requested_freq = policy->max;

OK, patch will be sent out later

Xiaoguang
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