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First off, some cpufreq drivers (eg. intel_pstate) can pass hints beyond the current target frequency to the hardware and there are no provisions for doing that in the cpufreq framework. In particular, today the driver has to assume that it should not allow the frequency to fall below the one requested by the governor (or the required capacity may not be provided) which may not be the case and which may lead to excessive energy usage in some scenarios. Second, the hints passed by these drivers to the hardware need not be in terms of the frequency, so representing the utilization numbers coming from the scheduler as frequency before passing them to those drivers is not really useful. Address the two points above by adding a special-purpose replacement for the ->fast_switch callback, called ->adjust_perf, allowing the governor to pass abstract performance level (rather than frequency) values for the minimum (required) and target (desired) performance along with the CPU capacity to compare them to. Also update the schedutil governor to use the new callback instead of ->fast_switch if present and if the utilization mertics are frequency-invariant (that is requisite for the direct mapping between the utilization and the CPU performance levels to be a reasonable approximation). Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com> Acked-by: Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@linaro.org>
Linux kernel
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There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.