Re: [PATCH V4 1/7] cpufreq: Merge cpufreq_offline_prepare/finish routines

From: Viresh Kumar
Date: Thu Feb 11 2016 - 06:46:41 EST


On 11-02-16, 02:15, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
> And one question tangentially related to this patch: Would it be
> possible to avoid calling __cpufreq_governor(_EXIT) for CPU offline?
>
> The fact that we still carry out the whole governor teardown at that
> point is slightly disturbing, as in theory it should be possible to
> keep the governor attributes in place across offline/online.

Will think about that after the current code is stable a bit. It should be
possible, but need to see if it is worth it.

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viresh