Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 15 Mar 2012 23:26:58 +0900 | From | Simon Horman <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] regulator: notify sysfs when voltage is set |
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On Thu, Mar 15, 2012 at 12:46:31PM +0000, Mark Brown wrote: > On Thu, Mar 15, 2012 at 09:04:33PM +0900, Simon Horman wrote: > > > This allows libudev to be used to monitor voltage changes and thus allows > > user-space code to avoid polling the sysfs entry for changes. > > I notice that we don't generate similar events for cpufreq... what are > the performance implications from firing off udev (which isn't free) > every time we scale the CPU frequency? It feels like this might be > disruptive, especially with a governor like ondemand which responds to > system load.
Hi Mark,
that is a good point and to be honest not one that I had considered. For the use-case that I have in mind, which is basically to log voltage changes over time, it may be acceptable to rate-limit notifications somehow. But at that point I may be better off just polling.
Out of interest, how often can ondemand potentially change the voltage?
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