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From: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rafael@kernel.org>
To: Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@linaro.org>
Cc: Rafael Wysocki <rjw@rjwysocki.net>,
	Lists linaro-kernel <linaro-kernel@lists.linaro.org>,
	"linux-pm@vger.kernel.org" <linux-pm@vger.kernel.org>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Steve Muckle <steve.muckle@linaro.org>,
	Dmitry Eremin-Solenikov <dbaryshkov@gmail.com>,
	Krzysztof Kozlowski <k.kozlowski@samsung.com>,
	Kukjin Kim <kgene@kernel.org>,
	Shawn Guo <shawn.guo@freescale.com>,
	Steven Miao <realmz6@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH V3 0/9] cpufreq: Sort policy->freq_table
Date: Mon, 6 Jun 2016 23:09:20 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAJZ5v0i2x3CVoVmrU0i51UVkKHQGtdGp9Joufi2OeKNvd68YRA@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <cover.1464960877.git.viresh.kumar@linaro.org>

On Fri, Jun 3, 2016 at 3:35 PM, Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@linaro.org> wrote:
> Hi Rafael,
>
> So all my patches are contained in two series. The first one is:
>
> [PATCH V3 0/8] cpufreq: cleanups and reorganization
>
> which I have sent this morning. It does some cleanup and shall be
> applied regardless of this series.
>
> This series improves the performance of cpufreq_frequency_table_target()
> routine by storing the policy->freq_table sorted in ascending order. On
> one hand it shall improve the performance of current governors for
> drivers providing freq-table to cpufreq core and on another hand this
> API can be used directly from schedutil governor as well.
>
> As Steve has requested earlier, these APIs are moved to a .h file to
> avoid function calls.
>
> Steve's series can use this API now without any performance lag.
>
> The first 7 patches makes sure that current drivers wouldn't break because
> of reordering of policy->freq_table and the 8th patch updates cpufreq
> core to sort policy->freq_table and make
> cpufreq_frequency_table_target() much more efficient.

Is there any particular reason why patches [2-7/9] are separate?

They seem to be making analogous changes in several drivers (and even
the changelog seems to be the same), so why don't you make a single
patch out of them?

  parent reply	other threads:[~2016-06-06 21:09 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-06-03 13:35 [PATCH V3 0/9] cpufreq: Sort policy->freq_table Viresh Kumar
2016-06-03 13:35 ` [PATCH V3 1/9] cpufreq: Use policy->freq_table in ->target_index() Viresh Kumar
2016-06-03 13:35 ` [PATCH V3 2/9] cpufreq: blackfin: Use 'index' only to index into policy->freq_table Viresh Kumar
2016-06-03 13:35 ` [PATCH V3 3/9] cpufreq: elanfreq: " Viresh Kumar
2016-06-03 13:35 ` [PATCH V3 4/9] cpufreq: exynos: " Viresh Kumar
2016-06-06  7:07   ` Krzysztof Kozlowski
2016-06-03 13:35 ` [PATCH V3 5/9] cpufreq: ia64: " Viresh Kumar
2016-06-03 13:35 ` [PATCH V3 6/9] cpufreq: imx: " Viresh Kumar
2016-06-06  3:58   ` Viresh Kumar
2016-06-03 13:35 ` [PATCH V3 7/9] cpufreq: maple: " Viresh Kumar
2016-06-03 13:35 ` [PATCH V3 8/9] cpufreq: Keep policy->freq_table sorted in ascending order Viresh Kumar
2016-06-03 23:48   ` Steve Muckle
2016-06-06  3:52     ` Viresh Kumar
2016-06-06 12:10       ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2016-06-06 12:24         ` Viresh Kumar
2016-06-06 12:57           ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2016-06-06 16:25             ` Viresh Kumar
2016-06-06 21:56               ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2016-06-07  4:28                 ` Viresh Kumar
2016-06-08  0:38                   ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2016-06-08  3:48                     ` Viresh Kumar
2016-06-03 13:35 ` [PATCH V3 9/9] cpufreq: drivers: Free frequency tables after being used Viresh Kumar
2016-06-06 22:45   ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2016-06-06 21:09 ` Rafael J. Wysocki [this message]
2016-06-07  3:48   ` [PATCH V3 0/9] cpufreq: Sort policy->freq_table Viresh Kumar

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