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    [CPUFREQ] add sampling_down_factor tunable to improve ondemand performance · 3f78a9f7
    David C Niemi authored
    Adds a new global tunable, sampling_down_factor.  Set to 1 it makes no
    changes from existing behavior, but set to greater than 1 (e.g. 100)
    it acts as a multiplier for the scheduling interval for reevaluating
    load when the CPU is at its top speed due to high load.  This improves
    performance by reducing the overhead of load evaluation and helping
    the CPU stay at its top speed when truly busy, rather than shifting
    back and forth in speed.  This tunable has no effect on behavior at
    lower speeds/lower CPU loads.
    
    This patch is against 2.6.36-rc6.
    
    This patch should help solve kernel bug 19672 "ondemand is slow".
    Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid Niemi <dniemi@verisign.com>
    Acked-by: default avatarVenkatesh Pallipadi <venki@google.com>
    CC: Daniel Hollocher <danielhollocher@gmail.com>
    CC: <cpufreq-list@vger.kernel.org>
    CC: <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarDave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
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