commit 808009131046b62ac434dbc796c0fe8accaab415
author venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com> Mon Aug 04 11:59:12 2008 -0700
committer Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com> Thu Oct 09 13:52:44 2008 -0400
tree 64b5c755b8eb5d43f8e00554032de372f36e7b4c
parent 8083e4ad970e4eb567e31037060cdd4ba346f0c0

[CPUFREQ][6/6] cpufreq: Add idle microaccounting in ondemand governor

Use get_cpu_idle_time_us() to get micro-accounted idle information.
This enables ondemand to get more accurate idle and busy timings
than the jiffy based calculation. As a result, we can decrease
the ondemand safety gaurd band from 80-10 to 95-3.

Results in more aggressive power savings.

Signed-off-by: Venkatesh Pallipadi <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>