RE: [PATCH] omap-pm: Fixes behaviour of some shared resource framework functions

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Hello Benoit,
                        One comment below:
> 
> In fact, this is Mike who started that analysis. We discussed that internally and
> our point is that if the CPUFreq ondemand or conservative heuristic is not able
> to increase quickly enough the CPU need to handle correctly the UI, we have
> to somehow improve or modify the governor in order to provide it a extra
> information in term of constraint maybe in order to increase immediately the
> frequency.
The information as you mention needs to be supplied by the driver. The governor would then act on behalf of the driver! 
This begs for a new governor API or a signature change to an existing governor API.
> 
> This should not be done in the low level omap_pm code; this is not the right
> level to do that. The issue is in the ondemand and must be fixed there.
> 
At the end of the day it would still be the driver making the decision! 

Regards,
-Romit


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