CyanogenMod/android_kernel_samsung_tuna — pull request #4 by n1kolaa (2014-03-20 22:21:28+00:00)
Title: powerhall:cpufreq: Add cpu-boost driver

When certain bursty and important events take place, it might take a
while
for the current cpufreq governor to notice the new load and react to it.
That would result in poor user experience. To alleviate this, the
cpu-boost
driver boosts the frequency of a CPU for a short duration to maintain
good
user experience while the governor catches up.

Specifically, this commit deals with ensuring that when "important"
tasks
migrate from a fast CPU to a slow CPU, the frequency of the slow CPU is
boosted to be at least as high as the fast CPU for a short duration.

Since this driver enforces the boost by hooking into standard cpufreq
ADJUST notifiers, it has several advantages:
- More portable across kernel versions where the cpufreq internals might
have been rewritten.
- Governor agnostic and hence works with multiple governors like
conservative, ondemand, interactive, etc.
- Does not affect the sampling period/logic of existing governors.
- Can have the boost period adjusted independent of governor sampling
period.
-Shoud fix batery drain and logcat spam
Signed-off-by: Saravana Kannan

Change-Id: Ibd814a20043d0aba64ee7637a4a79b9ffa1b0991