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From: Ionela Voinescu <ionela.voinescu@arm.com>
To: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rafael@kernel.org>
Cc: Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@linaro.org>,
	"Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@rjwysocki.net>,
	Dietmar Eggemann <dietmar.eggemann@arm.com>,
	Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>,
	Sudeep Holla <sudeep.holla@arm.com>,
	Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>,
	Russell King - ARM Linux <linux@armlinux.org.uk>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>,
	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>,
	Linux PM <linux-pm@vger.kernel.org>,
	Linux ARM <linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Valentin Schneider <valentin.schneider@arm.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 1/7] cpufreq: move invariance setter calls in cpufreq core
Date: Mon, 3 Aug 2020 15:16:34 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200803141634.GA30107@arm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAJZ5v0gOJXtpF4iy2v+Jbv9y9QZsAtEREMQwWv0u7Zks0Fvp1A@mail.gmail.com>

Hi Rafael,

On Monday 03 Aug 2020 at 15:46:59 (+0200), Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 3, 2020 at 3:26 PM Ionela Voinescu <ionela.voinescu@arm.com> wrote:
> >
> > Hi guys,
> >
> > On Thursday 30 Jul 2020 at 09:11:28 (+0530), Viresh Kumar wrote:
> > > On 27-07-20, 15:48, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
> > > > On Wed, Jul 22, 2020 at 11:38 AM Ionela Voinescu
> > > > <ionela.voinescu@arm.com> wrote:
> > > > > diff --git a/drivers/cpufreq/cpufreq.c b/drivers/cpufreq/cpufreq.c
> > > > > index 036f4cc42ede..bac4101546db 100644
> > > > > --- a/drivers/cpufreq/cpufreq.c
> > > > > +++ b/drivers/cpufreq/cpufreq.c
> > > > > @@ -2058,9 +2058,16 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(cpufreq_unregister_notifier);
> > > > >  unsigned int cpufreq_driver_fast_switch(struct cpufreq_policy *policy,
> > > > >                                         unsigned int target_freq)
> > > > >  {
> > > > > +       unsigned int freq;
> > > > > +
> > > > >         target_freq = clamp_val(target_freq, policy->min, policy->max);
> > > > > +       freq = cpufreq_driver->fast_switch(policy, target_freq);
> > > > > +
> > > > > +       if (freq)
> > > > > +               arch_set_freq_scale(policy->related_cpus, freq,
> > > > > +                                   policy->cpuinfo.max_freq);
> > > >
> > > > Why can't arch_set_freq_scale() handle freq == 0?
> > >
> >
> > Sorry, I seem to have missed this question the first time around.
> >
> > arch_set_freq_scale() could handle freq == 0, but given that freq == 0
> > is signaling an error here, I do believe this check is well placed, to
> > prevent a useless call to arch_set_freq_scale(). Also [1]:
> 
> So let me rephrase:
> 
> Doesn't this check add overhead in the empty arch_set_freq_scale() case?

Yes, you are right, I did not consider that. I can add a patch for the
arch_topology driver's arch_set_freq_scale() to handle this and we can
remove it from here.

Thank you for pointing this out,
Ionela.

  reply	other threads:[~2020-08-03 14:16 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 [this message]
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
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   ` 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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