Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [PATCH V3 2/2] sched: idle: IRQ based next prediction for idle period | From | Daniel Lezcano <> | Date | Thu, 18 Feb 2016 10:25:54 +0000 |
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On 02/17/2016 11:21 PM, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
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>>> Reviewed-by: Nicolas Pitre <nico@linaro.org> >> >> Well, I'm likely overlooking something, but how is this going to be >> hooked up to the code in idle.c? > > My somewhat educated guess is that sched_idle() in your patch is > intended to replace cpuidle_idle_call(), right?
Well, no. I was planning to first have it to use a different code path as experimental code in order to focus improving the accuracy of the prediction and then merge or replace cpuidle_idle_call() with sched_idle().
> If so, why do you want to replace it? > > And assuming that you have a good enough reason to do that, you need > to ensure that suspend-to-idle will work anyway.
Yes, sure.
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