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Re: [PATCH V3 0/9] cpufreq: Sort policy->freq_table

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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?

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[PATCH V3 0/9] cpufreq: Sort policy->freq_table Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@linaro.org> - 2016-06-03 15:40 +0200
  [PATCH V3 5/9] cpufreq: ia64: Use 'index' only to index into policy->freq_table Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@linaro.org> - 2016-06-03 15:40 +0200
  [PATCH V3 9/9] cpufreq: drivers: Free frequency tables after being used Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@linaro.org> - 2016-06-03 15:40 +0200
    Re: [PATCH V3 9/9] cpufreq: drivers: Free frequency tables after  being used "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rafael@kernel.org> - 2016-06-07 00:50 +0200
  Re: [PATCH V3 0/9] cpufreq: Sort policy->freq_table "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rafael@kernel.org> - 2016-06-06 23:10 +0200
    Re: [PATCH V3 0/9] cpufreq: Sort policy->freq_table Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@linaro.org> - 2016-06-07 05:50 +0200

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