[RFC/RFT][PATCH v7] cpuidle: New timer events oriented governor for tickless systems

2018-12-04 Thread Rafael J. Wysocki
From: Rafael J. Wysocki The venerable menu governor does some thigns that are quite questionable in my view. First, it includes timer wakeups in the pattern detection data and mixes them up with wakeups from other sources which in some cases causes it to expect what essentially would be a timer

[RFC/RFT][PATCH v7] cpuidle: New timer events oriented governor for tickless systems

2018-12-04 Thread Rafael J. Wysocki
From: Rafael J. Wysocki The venerable menu governor does some thigns that are quite questionable in my view. First, it includes timer wakeups in the pattern detection data and mixes them up with wakeups from other sources which in some cases causes it to expect what essentially would be a timer