From: Juri Lelli <juri.lelli@arm.com>
To: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rafael@kernel.org>
Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@rjwysocki.net>,
Srinivas Pandruvada <srinivas.pandruvada@linux.intel.com>,
Linux PM list <linux-pm@vger.kernel.org>,
Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>,
Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>,
Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@linaro.org>,
Steve Muckle <steve.muckle@linaro.org>,
Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v10 1/3] cpufreq: Add mechanism for registering utilization update callbacks
Date: Tue, 23 Feb 2016 11:10:07 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160223111007.GK27380@e106622-lin> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAJZ5v0ha0_LroBiWfbE1HgRjrvk7zt4M+40JLnNHHLuewTF4hg@mail.gmail.com>
On 22/02/16 22:41, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 22, 2016 at 10:42 AM, Juri Lelli <juri.lelli@arm.com> wrote:
> > Hi Rafael,
> >
> > On 19/02/16 23:26, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
> >> On Friday, February 19, 2016 05:26:04 PM Juri Lelli wrote:
> >> > Hi Srinivas,
>
> [cut]
>
> >> ---
> >> From: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
> >> Subject: [PATCH] cpufreq: Rework the scheduler hooks for triggering updates
> >>
> >> Commit fe7034338ba0 (cpufreq: Add mechanism for registering
> >> utilization update callbacks) added cpufreq_update_util() to be
> >> called by the scheduler (from the CFS part) on utilization updates.
> >> The goal was to allow CFS to pass utilization information to cpufreq
> >> and to trigger it to evaluate the frequency/voltage configuration
> >> (P-state) of every CPU on a regular basis.
> >>
> >> However, the last two arguments of that function are never used by
> >> the current code, so CFS might simply call cpufreq_trigger_update()
> >> instead of it.
> >>
> >> For this reason, drop the last two arguments of cpufreq_update_util(),
> >> rename it to cpufreq_trigger_update() and modify CFS to call it.
> >>
> >> Moreover, since the utilization is not involved in that now, rename
> >> data types, functions and variables related to cpufreq_trigger_update()
> >> to reflect that (eg. struct update_util_data becomes struct
> >> freq_update_hook and so on).
> >>
> >> Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
> >
> > This patch looks good to me. I didn't yet test it, but it shouldn't
> > break things AFAICT.
> >
> > Thanks a lot for taking the time for this cleanup.
>
> Alas, I don't think I will apply it.
>
> Peter says that he wants the arguments to stay and he has a point IMO.
>
> The very idea behind hooking up cpufreq to the scheduler through those
> hooks has always been to make it possible to use the utilization
> information provided by the scheduler in cpufreq. As it turns out, we
> can make significant improvements even *without* using that
> information, because just having the hooks in there alone makes it
> possible to simplify the code quite a bit in general and make it more
> straightforward, but that's a *bonus* and not the objective. :-)
>
> The objective still is to use the utilization numbers from the scheduler.
>
> Both sched-freq and my approach agree on that, so I don't quite see
> why I should pretend that this isn't the case now?
>
As I said in the other reply, I'm not at all against having cpufreq
hooks in the scheduler. I was only wondering if deciding where such
hooks reside and which interface they have before we agreed on how they
will be used might cause problems in the future. :-)
Best,
- Juri
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-02-23 11:09 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 134+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-01-29 22:52 [PATCH 0/3] cpufreq: Replace timers with utilization update callbacks Rafael J. Wysocki
2016-01-29 22:53 ` [PATCH 1/3] cpufreq: Add a mechanism for registering " Rafael J. Wysocki
2016-02-04 3:31 ` Viresh Kumar
2016-01-29 22:56 ` [PATCH 2/3] cpufreq: intel_pstate: Replace timers with " Rafael J. Wysocki
2016-01-29 22:59 ` [PATCH 3/3] cpufreq: governor: " Rafael J. Wysocki
2016-02-03 1:16 ` [Update][PATCH " Rafael J. Wysocki
2016-02-04 4:49 ` Viresh Kumar
2016-02-04 10:54 ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2016-02-05 1:28 ` [PATCH 3/3 v3] " Rafael J. Wysocki
2016-02-05 6:50 ` Viresh Kumar
2016-02-05 13:36 ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2016-02-05 14:47 ` Viresh Kumar
2016-02-05 23:10 ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2016-02-07 9:10 ` Viresh Kumar
2016-02-07 14:43 ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2016-02-08 2:08 ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2016-02-08 11:52 ` Viresh Kumar
2016-02-08 12:52 ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2016-02-08 13:40 ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2016-02-05 23:01 ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2016-02-06 3:40 ` [PATCH 3/3 v4] " Rafael J. Wysocki
2016-02-07 9:20 ` Viresh Kumar
2016-02-07 14:36 ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2016-02-07 14:50 ` [PATCH 3/3 v5] " Rafael J. Wysocki
2016-02-07 15:36 ` Viresh Kumar
2016-02-09 10:01 ` Gautham R Shenoy
2016-02-09 18:49 ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2016-02-03 22:20 ` [PATCH 0/3] cpufreq: " Rafael J. Wysocki
2016-02-04 0:08 ` Srinivas Pandruvada
2016-02-04 17:16 ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2016-02-04 10:51 ` Juri Lelli
2016-02-04 17:19 ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2016-02-08 23:06 ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2016-02-09 0:39 ` Steve Muckle
2016-02-09 1:01 ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2016-02-09 20:05 ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2016-02-10 1:02 ` Steve Muckle
2016-02-10 1:57 ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2016-02-10 3:09 ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2016-02-10 19:47 ` Steve Muckle
2016-02-10 21:49 ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2016-02-10 22:07 ` Steve Muckle
2016-02-10 22:12 ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2016-02-11 11:59 ` Peter Zijlstra
2016-02-11 12:24 ` Juri Lelli
2016-02-11 15:26 ` Peter Zijlstra
2016-02-11 18:23 ` Vincent Guittot
2016-02-12 14:04 ` Peter Zijlstra
2016-02-12 14:48 ` Vincent Guittot
2016-03-01 13:58 ` Peter Zijlstra
2016-03-01 14:17 ` Juri Lelli
2016-03-01 14:24 ` Peter Zijlstra
2016-03-01 14:26 ` Peter Zijlstra
2016-03-01 14:42 ` Juri Lelli
2016-03-01 15:04 ` Peter Zijlstra
2016-03-01 19:49 ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2016-03-01 14:58 ` Vincent Guittot
2016-02-11 17:06 ` Steve Muckle
2016-02-11 17:30 ` Peter Zijlstra
2016-02-11 17:34 ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2016-02-11 17:38 ` Peter Zijlstra
2016-02-11 18:52 ` Steve Muckle
2016-02-11 19:04 ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2016-02-12 13:43 ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2016-02-12 14:10 ` Peter Zijlstra
2016-02-12 16:01 ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2016-02-12 16:15 ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2016-02-12 16:53 ` Ashwin Chaugule
2016-02-12 23:14 ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2016-02-12 17:02 ` Doug Smythies
2016-02-12 23:17 ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2016-02-10 12:33 ` Juri Lelli
2016-02-10 13:23 ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2016-02-10 14:03 ` Juri Lelli
2016-02-10 14:26 ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2016-02-10 14:46 ` Juri Lelli
2016-02-10 15:46 ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2016-02-10 16:05 ` Juri Lelli
2016-02-11 11:51 ` Peter Zijlstra
2016-02-11 12:08 ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2016-02-11 15:29 ` Peter Zijlstra
2016-02-11 15:58 ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2016-02-11 20:47 ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2016-02-10 15:17 ` [PATCH v6 " Rafael J. Wysocki
2016-02-10 15:21 ` [PATCH v6 1/3] cpufreq: Add mechanism for registering " Rafael J. Wysocki
2016-02-10 23:01 ` [PATCH v7 " Rafael J. Wysocki
2016-02-11 17:30 ` [PATCH v8 " Rafael J. Wysocki
2016-02-12 13:16 ` [PATCH v9 " Rafael J. Wysocki
2016-02-15 21:47 ` [PATCH v10 " Rafael J. Wysocki
2016-02-18 20:22 ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2016-02-19 8:09 ` Juri Lelli
2016-02-19 16:42 ` Srinivas Pandruvada
2016-02-19 17:26 ` Juri Lelli
2016-02-19 22:26 ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2016-02-22 9:42 ` Juri Lelli
2016-02-22 21:41 ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2016-02-23 11:10 ` Juri Lelli [this message]
2016-02-24 1:52 ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2016-02-22 10:45 ` Viresh Kumar
2016-02-19 17:28 ` Steve Muckle
2016-02-19 22:35 ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2016-02-23 3:58 ` Steve Muckle
2016-02-22 10:52 ` Peter Zijlstra
2016-02-22 14:33 ` Vincent Guittot
2016-02-22 15:31 ` Peter Zijlstra
2016-02-22 14:40 ` Juri Lelli
2016-02-22 15:42 ` Peter Zijlstra
2016-02-22 21:46 ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2016-02-19 22:14 ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2016-02-22 9:32 ` Juri Lelli
2016-02-22 21:26 ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2016-02-23 11:01 ` Juri Lelli
2016-02-24 2:01 ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2016-03-08 19:24 ` Michael Turquette
2016-03-08 20:40 ` Rafael J. Wysocki
[not found] ` <20160308220632.4103.13377@quark.deferred.io>
2016-03-08 22:43 ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2016-03-09 12:35 ` Peter Zijlstra
2016-03-09 13:22 ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2016-03-09 13:32 ` Ingo Molnar
2016-03-09 13:39 ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2016-03-10 2:12 ` Vincent Guittot
2016-02-10 15:25 ` [PATCH v6 2/3] cpufreq: intel_pstate: Replace timers with " Rafael J. Wysocki
2016-02-10 15:36 ` [PATCH v6 3/3] cpufreq: governor: " Rafael J. Wysocki
2016-02-10 23:11 ` [PATCH v6 0/3] cpufreq: " Doug Smythies
2016-02-10 23:17 ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2016-02-11 22:50 ` Doug Smythies
2016-02-11 23:28 ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2016-02-12 1:02 ` Doug Smythies
2016-02-12 1:20 ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2016-02-12 7:25 ` Doug Smythies
2016-02-12 13:39 ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2016-02-12 17:33 ` Doug Smythies
2016-02-12 23:21 ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2016-02-11 6:02 ` Srinivas Pandruvada
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