From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752627Ab0DQRz7 (ORCPT ); Sat, 17 Apr 2010 13:55:59 -0400 Received: from casper.infradead.org ([85.118.1.10]:59712 "EHLO casper.infradead.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751357Ab0DQRz6 (ORCPT ); Sat, 17 Apr 2010 13:55:58 -0400 Date: Sat, 17 Apr 2010 10:57:21 -0700 From: Arjan van de Ven To: tytso@mit.edu Cc: Peter Zijlstra , Salman , mingo@elte.hu, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, akpm@linux-foundation.org, svaidy@linux.vnet.ibm.com, linux-pm@lists.linux-foundation.org, csadler@google.com, ranjitm@google.com, kenchen@google.com, dawnchen@google.com Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/3] [idled]: Idle Cycle Injector for power capping Message-ID: <20100417105721.63d48577@infradead.org> In-Reply-To: <20100417170808.GE32634@thunk.org> References: <20100413234902.29004.41655.stgit@bumblebee1.mtv.corp.google.com> <1271317886.32749.69.camel@laptop> <20100417170808.GE32634@thunk.org> Organization: Intel X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.7.5 (GTK+ 2.16.6; i586-redhat-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-SRS-Rewrite: SMTP reverse-path rewritten from by casper.infradead.org See http://www.infradead.org/rpr.html Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Sat, 17 Apr 2010 13:08:08 -0400 tytso@mit.edu wrote: > On Thu, Apr 15, 2010 at 09:51:26AM +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote: > > On Tue, 2010-04-13 at 17:08 -0700, Salman wrote: > > > As we discussed earlier this year, Google has an implementation > > > that it would like to share. I have finally gotten around to > > > porting it to v2.6.33 and cleaning up the interfaces. It is > > > provided in the following messages for your review. I realize > > > that when we first discussed this idea, a lot of ideas were > > > presented for enhancing it. Thanks alot for your suggestions. I > > > haven't gotten around to implementing any of them. > > > > .33 is way too old to submit patches against. > > But it's not too old for review purposes; as Salman said, they were > sent to LKML for comments and review. I think it's well understood > that when these patches are ready to be merged, they need to be > submitted right before the merge window opens, against a recent -rc > kernel. s/submitted/refreshed/ ;-) -- Arjan van de Ven Intel Open Source Technology Centre For development, discussion and tips for power savings, visit http://www.lesswatts.org