Re: [PATCH 0/4] cpuidle - support multiple drivers at a time

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On Tue, Sep 25, 2012 at 12:43:50AM +0200, Daniel Lezcano wrote:
> The discussion about having different cpus on the system with
> different latencies bring us to a first attemp by adding a
> pointer in the cpuidle_device to the states array.
> 
> But as Rafael suggested, it would make more sense to create a
> driver per cpu [1].
> 
> This patch adds support for multiple cpuidle drivers.
> 
> It creates a per cpu cpuidle driver pointer.
> 
> In order to not break the different drivers, the function cpuidle_register_driver
> assign for each cpu, the driver.
> 
> The multiple driver support is optional and if it is not set, the cpuide driver
> core code remains the same (except some code reorganisation).
> 
> I did the following tests compiled, booted, tested without/with CONFIG_CPU_IDLE,
> with/without CONFIG_CPU_IDLE_MULTIPLE_DRIVERS.
> 
> Tested on Core2 Duo T9500 with acpi_idle [and intel_idle]
> Tested on ARM Dual Cortex-A9 U8500 (aka Snowball)
> 

Tested on Cardhu (Tegra30).

Besides the possibly problem with the sysfs format:

Acked-by: Peter De Schrijver <pdeschrijver@xxxxxxxxxx>

Cheers,

Peter.
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