[PATCH v3 2/5] powernv, cpufreq:Add per-core locking to serialize frequency transitions

Srivatsa S. Bhat srivatsa.bhat at linux.vnet.ibm.com
Fri Mar 21 20:56:13 EST 2014


On 03/21/2014 02:12 PM, Viresh Kumar wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 20, 2014 at 5:40 PM, Gautham R. Shenoy
> <ego at linux.vnet.ibm.com> wrote:
>> From: "Srivatsa S. Bhat" <srivatsa.bhat at linux.vnet.ibm.com>
>>
>> On POWER systems, the CPU frequency is controlled at a core-level and
>> hence we need to serialize so that only one of the threads in the core
>> switches the core's frequency at a time.
> 
> Probably you don't need this anymore.
> 
> https://lkml.org/lkml/2014/3/21/23
> 

Agreed.

Regards,
Srivatsa S. Bhat



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