Re: [PATCH] ACPI: processor: Add QoS requests for all CPUs

[Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@linaro.org>]

On 25-10-19, 10:17, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 25, 2019 at 4:53 AM Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@linaro.org> wrote:
> >
> > On 25-10-19, 02:41, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
> > > From: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
> > >
> > > The _PPC change notifications from the platform firmware are per-CPU,
> > > so acpi_processor_ppc_init() needs to add a frequency QoS request
> > > for each CPU covered by a cpufreq policy to take all of them into
> > > account.
> > >
> > > Even though ACPI thermal control of CPUs sets frequency limits
> > > per processor package, it also needs a frequency QoS request for each
> > > CPU in a cpufreq policy in case some of them are taken offline and
> > > the frequency limit needs to be set through the remaining online
> > > ones (this is slightly excessive, because all CPUs covered by one
> > > cpufreq policy will set the same frequency limit through their QoS
> > > requests, but it is not incorrect).
> > >
> > > Modify the code in accordance with the above observations.
> >
> > I am not sure if I understood everything you just said, but I don't
> > see how things can break with the current code we have.
> >
> > Both acpi_thermal_cpufreq_init() and acpi_processor_ppc_init() are
> > called from acpi_processor_notifier() which is registered as a policy
> > notifier and is called when a policy is created or removed. Even if
> > some CPUs of a policy go offline, it won't matter as the request for
> > the policy stays and it will be dropped only when all the CPUs of a
> > policy go offline.
> >
> > What am I missing ?
> 
> The way the request is used.

Yes, I missed the point :)

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viresh