On 05/27/2014 04:57 AM, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote: > Hi Srivatsa, > > On Tuesday, May 27, 2014 02:23:38 AM Srivatsa S. Bhat wrote: >> Cpufreq governors like the ondemand governor calculate the load on the CPU >> periodically by employing deferrable timers. A deferrable timer won't fire >> if the CPU is completely idle (and there are no other timers to be run), in >> order to avoid unnecessary wakeups and thus save CPU power. >> >> However, the load calculation logic is agnostic to all this, and this can >> lead to the problem described below. > > This is subtle enough that I need some more time to chew on it, but since the > merge window is coming, I'm not sure when that's going to happen honestly. >
Sure, I completely understand. Please take your time, no hurry! Thank you very much! Regards, Srivatsa S. Bhat -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/