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Re: [PATCH v3 1/3] cpufreq: add cpufreq_driver_resolve_freq()

From Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@linaro.org>
Newsgroups linux.kernel
Subject Re: [PATCH v3 1/3] cpufreq: add cpufreq_driver_resolve_freq()
Date 2016-07-22 01:40 +0200
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On 21-07-16, 16:29, Steve Muckle wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 21, 2016 at 04:21:31PM -0700, Steve Muckle wrote:
> > On Thu, Jul 21, 2016 at 01:30:41PM -0700, Viresh Kumar wrote:
> > > Okay, but in that case shouldn't we do something like this:
> > > 
> > > unsigned int cpufreq_driver_resolve_freq(struct cpufreq_policy *policy,
> > >                                         unsigned int target_freq)
> > > {
> > >        target_freq = clamp_val(target_freq, policy->min, policy->max);
> > >        policy->cached_target_freq = target_freq;
> > > 
> > >        if (cpufreq_driver->target_index) {
> > >        		policy->cached_resolved_idx =
> > >        		        cpufreq_frequency_table_target(policy, target_freq,
> > >        		                                       CPUFREQ_RELATION_L);
> > >        		return policy->freq_table[policy->cached_resolved_idx].frequency;
> > >        }
> > > 
> > >        if (cpufreq_driver->resolve_freq)
> > >                return cpufreq_driver->resolve_freq(policy, target_freq);
> > > }
> > 
> > Thanks for the review.
> > 
> > My thinking (noted in the commit text) was that the caller of
> > cpufreq_driver_resolve_freq() would verify that the driver supported the
> > proper calls before using this API. This way it can be checked once,
> > presumably in a governor's init routine. Checking the pointer over and
> > over again in a fast path is wasteful.
> 
> I guess this isn't immediately possible as the governor can't see
> cpufreq_driver. I was hoping to change that however to allow
> cpufreq_driver_resolve_freq() to be inlined in schedutil to get rid of
> another function call...

Well, you can do that by moving the newly created routine to
cpufreq.h.

-- 
viresh

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[PATCH v3 0/3] cpufreq: avoid redundant driver calls in schedutil Steve Muckle <steve.muckle@linaro.org> - 2016-07-13 22:30 +0200
  [PATCH v3 3/3] cpufreq: acpi-cpufreq: use cached frequency mapping when possible Steve Muckle <steve.muckle@linaro.org> - 2016-07-13 22:30 +0200
  [PATCH v3 2/3] cpufreq: schedutil: map raw required frequency to driver frequency Steve Muckle <steve.muckle@linaro.org> - 2016-07-13 22:30 +0200
  [PATCH v3 1/3] cpufreq: add cpufreq_driver_resolve_freq() Steve Muckle <steve.muckle@linaro.org> - 2016-07-13 22:30 +0200
    Re: [PATCH v3 1/3] cpufreq: add cpufreq_driver_resolve_freq() Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@linaro.org> - 2016-07-21 22:00 +0200
      Re: [PATCH v3 1/3] cpufreq: add cpufreq_driver_resolve_freq() "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@rjwysocki.net> - 2016-07-21 22:30 +0200
        Re: [PATCH v3 1/3] cpufreq: add cpufreq_driver_resolve_freq() Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@linaro.org> - 2016-07-21 22:40 +0200
          Re: [PATCH v3 1/3] cpufreq: add cpufreq_driver_resolve_freq() "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@rjwysocki.net> - 2016-07-21 22:50 +0200
            Re: [PATCH v3 1/3] cpufreq: add cpufreq_driver_resolve_freq() Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@linaro.org> - 2016-07-21 23:00 +0200
              Re: [PATCH v3 1/3] cpufreq: add cpufreq_driver_resolve_freq() Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@linaro.org> - 2016-07-21 23:20 +0200
              Re: [PATCH v3 1/3] cpufreq: add cpufreq_driver_resolve_freq() "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@rjwysocki.net> - 2016-07-21 23:20 +0200
          Re: [PATCH v3 1/3] cpufreq: add cpufreq_driver_resolve_freq() Steve Muckle <steve.muckle@linaro.org> - 2016-07-22 01:30 +0200
            Re: [PATCH v3 1/3] cpufreq: add cpufreq_driver_resolve_freq() Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@linaro.org> - 2016-07-22 01:40 +0200
              Re: [PATCH v3 1/3] cpufreq: add cpufreq_driver_resolve_freq() Steve Muckle <steve.muckle@linaro.org> - 2016-07-22 01:40 +0200
                Re: [PATCH v3 1/3] cpufreq: add cpufreq_driver_resolve_freq() Steve Muckle <steve.muckle@linaro.org> - 2016-07-22 01:50 +0200
                Re: [PATCH v3 1/3] cpufreq: add cpufreq_driver_resolve_freq() Steve Muckle <steve.muckle@linaro.org> - 2016-07-22 02:50 +0200
                Re: [PATCH v3 1/3] cpufreq: add cpufreq_driver_resolve_freq() Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@linaro.org> - 2016-07-22 17:20 +0200
                Re: [PATCH v3 1/3] cpufreq: add cpufreq_driver_resolve_freq() Steve Muckle <steve.muckle@linaro.org> - 2016-07-22 19:50 +0200
            Re: [PATCH v3 1/3] cpufreq: add cpufreq_driver_resolve_freq() Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@linaro.org> - 2016-07-22 01:40 +0200
            Re: [PATCH v3 1/3] cpufreq: add cpufreq_driver_resolve_freq() Steve Muckle <steve.muckle@linaro.org> - 2016-07-22 01:40 +0200
    Re: [PATCH v3 1/3] cpufreq: add cpufreq_driver_resolve_freq() Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@linaro.org> - 2016-07-21 23:20 +0200
  Re: [PATCH v3 0/3] cpufreq: avoid redundant driver calls in schedutil Pingbo Wen <pingbo.wen@linaro.org> - 2016-07-14 12:10 +0200
    Re: [PATCH v3 0/3] cpufreq: avoid redundant driver calls in schedutil Steve Muckle <steve.muckle@linaro.org> - 2016-07-14 20:10 +0200
  Re: [PATCH v3 0/3] cpufreq: avoid redundant driver calls in schedutil Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@linaro.org> - 2016-07-21 22:10 +0200

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