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Date: Tue, 13 May 2014 03:34:53 +0800
From: Yuyang Du <yuyang.du@intel.com>
To: Stratos Karafotis <stratosk@semaphore.gr>
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Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH] cpufreq: intel_pstate: Change the calculation of
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On Mon, May 12, 2014 at 11:30:03PM +0300, Stratos Karafotis wrote:
> On 09/05/2014 05:56 μμ, Stratos Karafotis wrote:
>
> Next performance state = min_perf + (max_perf - min_perf) * load / 100
> 
Hi,

This formula is fundamentally broken. You need to associate the load with its
frequency.

Thanks,
Yuyang