On Thursday, October 25, 2012 04:49:33 PM Peter De Schrijver wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 19, 2012 at 12:10:45PM +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)
> > 
> > V1 tested on Tegra3 and Vexpress TC2
> > 
> 
> V2 tested on Tegra3.

Do I assume correctly that Tested-by applies?

Rafael


-- 
I speak only for myself.
Rafael J. Wysocki, Intel Open Source Technology Center.

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