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Date: Wed, 22 Mar 2017 15:26:15 +0530
From: Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@linaro.org>
To: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] cpufreq: schedutil: Always trace frequency if it does
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On 22-03-17, 10:29, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 22, 2017 at 01:56:53AM +0100, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:

> > However, the same problem may occur for a cpufreq driver that doesn't
> > support fast frequency switching and implements the ->target callback
> > (that is, it doesn't use frequency tables), but trace_cpu_frequency()
> > is not called if frequency updates are skipped in that case.
> 
> I'm having trouble parsing that; am I right in understanding this is the
> exact same scenario where only superfluous changes are omitted?

Yes. Just for a different driver type.

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viresh