From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1750969AbcBEDW1 (ORCPT ); Thu, 4 Feb 2016 22:22:27 -0500 Received: from mail-pa0-f51.google.com ([209.85.220.51]:36465 "EHLO mail-pa0-f51.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750722AbcBEDW0 (ORCPT ); Thu, 4 Feb 2016 22:22:26 -0500 Date: Fri, 5 Feb 2016 08:52:22 +0530 From: Viresh Kumar To: "Rafael J. Wysocki" Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" , Linux PM list , Linux Kernel Mailing List , Srinivas Pandruvada , Juri Lelli , Steve Muckle , Saravana Kannan Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/11] cpufreq: governor: Use common mutex for dbs_data protection Message-ID: <20160205032222.GB21792@vireshk> References: <3705929.bslqXH980s@vostro.rjw.lan> <1529283.0IedZktI9q@vostro.rjw.lan> <20160204050954.GU3469@vireshk> <20160205025948.GE3068@vireshk> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.23 (2014-03-12) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On 05-02-16, 04:06, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote: > And why is this a big problem, actually? Why do we want the switching > of governors to be that efficient? I am not saying its a big problem, just that its kind of a big lock, which could have been finer. -- viresh