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From: Ulf Hansson <ulf.hansson@linaro.org>
To: Alex Shi <alex.shi@linaro.org>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
	open list <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	"linux-pm@vger.kernel.org" <linux-pm@vger.kernel.org>,
	Daniel Lezcano <daniel.lezcano@linaro.org>,
	"Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@rjwysocki.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/4] cpu: expose pm_qos_resume_latency for each cpu
Date: Tue, 13 Sep 2016 09:17:17 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAPDyKFovPNBv+Fx5SgzrD6Fn+1qOfXnS=Fm0cHB=0CWKMUHrSg@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <57D750BA.6010305@linaro.org>

On 13 September 2016 at 03:04, Alex Shi <alex.shi@linaro.org> wrote:
> Cc Rafael.
>
> On 09/01/2016 05:26 PM, Ulf Hansson wrote:
>> In general I think the change makes sense, although it's this last
>> piece here that I wonder about.
>>
>> Is it okay that we expose sysfs attributes to userspace that don't
>> have any effect if they change the values? Perhaps it should be the
>> responsibility of the menu governor somehow to expose the sysfs nodes
>> instead? Unless there are some difficulties that prevents us from that
>> of course.
>>
>
> Hi Ulf,
>
> Sorry for response so late. The pm QoS designed to expose this interface
> in userspace. Root user can change this value and made effect on device
> sleeping status. That's required.

Sure, I understand that. Although, my point is that it's only when the
menu governor is enabled, that it would make sense for userspace to
modify the PM QoS values for the cpu device.

>
> Since this is per device interface, set it on menu governor isn't so good.

You may be right, and it's not a big deal for me! It was just an idea.

Kind regards
Uffe

  reply	other threads:[~2016-09-13  7:17 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-08-25  8:42 [PATCH 1/4] cpu: clean up register_cpu func Alex Shi
2016-08-25  8:42 ` [PATCH 2/4] cpu: expose pm_qos_resume_latency for each cpu Alex Shi
2016-08-31 10:45   ` Alex Shi
2016-08-31 13:18   ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2016-09-01  3:39     ` Alex Shi
2016-09-01  3:45       ` Alex Shi
2016-09-01  3:50   ` Alex Shi
2016-09-01  9:26     ` Ulf Hansson
2016-09-13  1:04       ` Alex Shi
2016-09-13  7:17         ` Ulf Hansson [this message]
2016-09-13 13:57     ` Alex Shi
2016-08-25  8:42 ` [PATCH 3/4] cpuidle/menu: stop seeking deeper idle if current state is too deep Alex Shi
2016-08-31 10:45   ` Alex Shi
2016-09-13 14:01   ` Alex Shi
2016-08-25  8:42 ` [PATCH 4/4] cpuidle/menu: add per cpu pm_qos_resume_latency consideration Alex Shi
2016-08-31 10:46   ` Alex Shi
2016-09-13 14:02   ` Alex Shi
2016-09-13 22:10     ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2016-09-14  8:28       ` Vincent Guittot
2016-09-23  1:36         ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2016-09-23  4:58           ` Alex Shi
2016-08-31 10:45 ` [PATCH 1/4] cpu: clean up register_cpu func Alex Shi
2016-08-31 13:17   ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2016-08-19  8:25 Alex Shi
2016-08-19  8:25 ` [PATCH 2/4] cpu: expose pm_qos_resume_latency for each cpu Alex Shi
2016-08-22  4:49   ` Alex Shi

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