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From: Ionela Voinescu <ionela.voinescu@arm.com>
To: Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@linaro.org>
Cc: linux-pm@vger.kernel.org, peterz@infradead.org,
	catalin.marinas@arm.com, rjw@rjwysocki.net,
	linux@armlinux.org.uk, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	mingo@redhat.com, sudeep.holla@arm.com, will@kernel.org,
	dietmar.eggemann@arm.com, linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 2/7] cpufreq: set invariance scale factor on transition end
Date: Wed, 5 Aug 2020 11:35:05 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200805103452.GA4817@arm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200804062611.6jpra73hmhybdw3i@vireshk-mac-ubuntu>

On Tuesday 04 Aug 2020 at 11:56:11 (+0530), Viresh Kumar wrote:
[..]
> > > >  - In __target_index(), cpufreq_freq_transition_end() is called only for
> > > >    drivers that have synchronous notifications enabled. There is only one
> > > >    driver that disables them,
> > > > 
> > > >    drivers/cpufreq/powernow-k8.c:1142: .flags = CPUFREQ_ASYNC_NOTIFICATION,
> > > > 
> > > >    which is deprecated.
> > > 
> > > I don't think this is deprecated.
> 
> Heh, maybe I misunderstood. I thought you are talking about the flag,
> while you were talking about the driver.
> 
> > Sorry, possibly 'deprecated' is a strong word.
> > 
> > As far as I knew acpi_cpufreq was recommended more recently for K8/K10
> > CPUs so that's why I decided not to create a special case for it, also
> > considering that it was not supporting cpufreq-based frequency
> > invariance to begin with.
> > 
> > We could support this as well by having a call to arch_set_freq_scale()
> > on the else path in __target_index(). But given that there was only this
> > one user of CPUFREQ_ASYNC_NOTIFICATION, I thought I'd propose this simpler
> > version first.
> > 
> > Let me know if my reasoning is wrong.
> 
> Nevertheless, I don't think you need to mention this detail in
> changelog for powernow-k8 as cpufreq_freq_transition_end() does get
> called for it as well, by the driver instead of the core.
> 

Agreed!

Many thanks,
Ionela.

> -- 
> viresh

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  reply	other threads:[~2020-08-05 10:36 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 35+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-07-22  9:37 [PATCH v2 0/7] cpufreq: improve frequency invariance support Ionela Voinescu
2020-07-22  9:37 ` [PATCH v2 1/7] cpufreq: move invariance setter calls in cpufreq core Ionela Voinescu
2020-07-27 13:48   ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2020-07-29  9:03     ` Ionela Voinescu
2020-07-30  3:41     ` Viresh Kumar
2020-08-03 13:26       ` Ionela Voinescu
2020-08-03 13:46         ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2020-08-03 14:16           ` Ionela Voinescu
2020-07-22  9:37 ` [PATCH v2 2/7] cpufreq: set invariance scale factor on transition end Ionela Voinescu
2020-07-27 13:52   ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2020-07-29  9:14     ` Ionela Voinescu
2020-07-30  4:13   ` Viresh Kumar
2020-08-03 13:58     ` Ionela Voinescu
2020-08-04  6:26       ` Viresh Kumar
2020-08-05 10:35         ` Ionela Voinescu [this message]
2020-07-22  9:37 ` [PATCH v2 3/7] arch_topology: disable frequency invariance for CONFIG_BL_SWITCHER Ionela Voinescu
2020-07-30  4:24   ` Viresh Kumar
2020-07-30 10:29     ` Dietmar Eggemann
2020-07-31 15:48       ` Sudeep Holla
2020-08-03 14:39         ` Ionela Voinescu
2020-08-04  6:30       ` Viresh Kumar
2020-08-10  9:01         ` Ionela Voinescu
2020-07-22  9:37 ` [PATCH v2 4/7] cpufreq: report whether cpufreq supports Frequency Invariance (FI) Ionela Voinescu
2020-07-27 14:02   ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2020-07-29 14:39     ` Ionela Voinescu
2020-07-30  4:43   ` Viresh Kumar
2020-08-03 15:24     ` Ionela Voinescu
2020-08-04  6:46       ` Viresh Kumar
2020-08-05 10:35         ` Ionela Voinescu
2020-07-22  9:37 ` [PATCH v2 5/7] arch_topology, cpufreq, sched/core: constify arch_* cpumasks Ionela Voinescu
2020-07-30 11:43   ` Catalin Marinas
2020-07-22  9:37 ` [PATCH v2 6/7] arch_topology, arm, arm64: define arch_scale_freq_invariant() Ionela Voinescu
2020-07-30 11:44   ` [PATCH v2 6/7] arch_topology,arm,arm64: " Catalin Marinas
2020-07-22  9:37 ` [PATCH v2 7/7] cpufreq: make schedutil the default for arm and arm64 Ionela Voinescu
2020-07-30  4:54   ` Viresh Kumar

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