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From: Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@linaro.org>
Date: Fri, 23 Oct 2020 06:24:46 +0000
Subject: Re: [PATCH] sched/fair: check for idle core
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To: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@rjwysocki.net>
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On 22-10-20, 13:45, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
> On Thursday, October 22, 2020 12:47:03 PM CEST Viresh Kumar wrote:
> > And I am not really sure why we always wanted this backup performance
> > governor to be there unless the said governors are built as module.
> 
> Apparently, some old drivers had problems with switching frequencies fast enough
> for ondemand to be used with them and the fallback was for those cases.  AFAICS.

Do we still need this ? Or better ask those platforms to individually
enable both of them.

-- 
viresh