This change is required to allow the branch ratio algorithm to
power manage cores with no workload running on them. This is
useful both when idle cores don't use C-states and for a number of
hyperthreading scenarios.

Signed-off-by: Rory Sexton <rory.sex...@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: David Hunt <david.h...@intel.com>
---
 examples/vm_power_manager/oob_monitor_x86.c | 8 ++++----
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/examples/vm_power_manager/oob_monitor_x86.c 
b/examples/vm_power_manager/oob_monitor_x86.c
index 3c514475f..a5b1c168c 100644
--- a/examples/vm_power_manager/oob_monitor_x86.c
+++ b/examples/vm_power_manager/oob_monitor_x86.c
@@ -96,12 +96,12 @@ apply_policy(int core)
        g_branch_misses = miss_diff;
 
        if (hits_diff < (INTERVAL*100)) {
-               /* Likely no workload running on this core. Skip. */
-               return -1.0;
+               /* Likely no workload running on this core. */
+               ratio = 0.0;
+       } else {
+               ratio = (float)miss_diff * (float)100 / (float)hits_diff;
        }
 
-       ratio = (float)miss_diff * (float)100 / (float)hits_diff;
-
        /*
         * Store the last few directions that the ratio indicates
         * we should take. If there's on 'up', then we scale up
-- 
2.25.1

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