summaryrefslogtreecommitdiffstats
path: root/drivers/cpufreq/cpufreq_conservative.c
diff options
context:
space:
mode:
authorThomas Renninger <trenn@suse.de>2007-10-02 22:28:12 +0200
committerDave Jones <davej@redhat.com>2007-10-05 00:40:57 +0200
commit1c2562459faedc35927546cfa5273ec6c2884cce (patch)
treea6133aa5c0ac2b4a8cb12fa37c28e755a458aef0 /drivers/cpufreq/cpufreq_conservative.c
parent[CPUFREQ] move policy's governor initialisation out of low-level drivers into... (diff)
downloadlinux-1c2562459faedc35927546cfa5273ec6c2884cce.tar.xz
linux-1c2562459faedc35927546cfa5273ec6c2884cce.zip
[CPUFREQ] allow ondemand and conservative cpufreq governors to be used as default
Depending on the transition latency of the HW for cpufreq switches, the ondemand or conservative governor cannot be used with certain cpufreq drivers. Still the ondemand should be the default governor on a wide range of systems. This patch allows this and lets the governor fallback to the performance governor at cpufreq driver load time, if the driver does not support fast enough frequency switching. Main benefit is that on e.g. installation or other systems without userspace support a working dynamic cpufreq support can be achieved on most systems by simply loading the cpufreq driver. This is especially essential for recent x86(_64) laptop hardware which may rely on working dynamic cpufreq OS support. Signed-off-by: Thomas Renninger <trenn@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Venkatesh Pallipadi <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com> Cc: Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk> Cc: Bryan Wu <bryan.wu@analog.com> Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> Cc: "Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@intel.com> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Cc: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org> Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/cpufreq/cpufreq_conservative.c')
-rw-r--r--drivers/cpufreq/cpufreq_conservative.c19
1 files changed, 9 insertions, 10 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/cpufreq/cpufreq_conservative.c b/drivers/cpufreq/cpufreq_conservative.c
index 26f440ccc3fb..4bd33ce8a6f3 100644
--- a/drivers/cpufreq/cpufreq_conservative.c
+++ b/drivers/cpufreq/cpufreq_conservative.c
@@ -58,7 +58,7 @@ static unsigned int def_sampling_rate;
#define DEF_SAMPLING_RATE_LATENCY_MULTIPLIER (1000)
#define DEF_SAMPLING_DOWN_FACTOR (1)
#define MAX_SAMPLING_DOWN_FACTOR (10)
-#define TRANSITION_LATENCY_LIMIT (10 * 1000)
+#define TRANSITION_LATENCY_LIMIT (10 * 1000 * 1000)
static void do_dbs_timer(struct work_struct *work);
@@ -466,9 +466,6 @@ static int cpufreq_governor_dbs(struct cpufreq_policy *policy,
(!policy->cur))
return -EINVAL;
- if (policy->cpuinfo.transition_latency >
- (TRANSITION_LATENCY_LIMIT * 1000))
- return -EINVAL;
if (this_dbs_info->enable) /* Already enabled */
break;
@@ -551,15 +548,17 @@ static int cpufreq_governor_dbs(struct cpufreq_policy *policy,
return 0;
}
-static struct cpufreq_governor cpufreq_gov_dbs = {
- .name = "conservative",
- .governor = cpufreq_governor_dbs,
- .owner = THIS_MODULE,
+struct cpufreq_governor cpufreq_gov_conservative = {
+ .name = "conservative",
+ .governor = cpufreq_governor_dbs,
+ .max_transition_latency = TRANSITION_LATENCY_LIMIT,
+ .owner = THIS_MODULE,
};
+EXPORT_SYMBOL(cpufreq_gov_conservative);
static int __init cpufreq_gov_dbs_init(void)
{
- return cpufreq_register_governor(&cpufreq_gov_dbs);
+ return cpufreq_register_governor(&cpufreq_gov_conservative);
}
static void __exit cpufreq_gov_dbs_exit(void)
@@ -567,7 +566,7 @@ static void __exit cpufreq_gov_dbs_exit(void)
/* Make sure that the scheduled work is indeed not running */
flush_scheduled_work();
- cpufreq_unregister_governor(&cpufreq_gov_dbs);
+ cpufreq_unregister_governor(&cpufreq_gov_conservative);
}