Re: [PATCH 1/8] sched/cpufreq: remove cpufreq_trigger_update()

From	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Newsgroups	linux.kernel
Subject	Re: [PATCH 1/8] sched/cpufreq: remove cpufreq_trigger_update()
Date	2016-03-15 23:00 +0100
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On Tue, Mar 15, 2016 at 02:45:45PM -0700, Michael Turquette wrote:
> Quoting Peter Zijlstra (2016-03-15 14:14:48)
> > On Sun, Mar 13, 2016 at 10:22:05PM -0700, Michael Turquette wrote:
> > > cpufreq_trigger_update() was introduced in "cpufreq: Rework the
> > > scheduler hooks for triggering updates"[0]. Consensus is that this
> > > helper is not needed and removing it will aid in experimenting with
> > > deadline and rt capacity requests.
> > > 
> > > Instead of reverting the above patch, which includes useful renaming of
> > > data structures and related functions, simply remove the function,
> > > update affected kerneldoc and change rt.c and deadline.c to use
> > > cpufreq_update_util().
> > 
> > This fails to explain how the need for these hooks is dealt with.
> 
> Sorry, I don't understand your point. The removed hook,
> "cpufreq_trigger_update()" was only used in deadline.c and rt.c, and
> this patch effectively reverts Rafael's patch that introduces that
> function.
> 
> It simply does not revert the other changes in Rafael's patch, such as
> some renaming.
> 
> deadline.c and rt.c are made to use cpufreq_update_util() and pass in
> ULONG_MAX for capacity and 0 for time. This is exactly what they did
> before patch "cpufreq: Rework the scheduler hooks for triggering
> updates".

Clearly I need to learn to read again.. You're right.

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[PATCH 0/8] schedutil enhancements Michael Turquette <mturquette@baylibre.com> - 2016-03-14 06:30 +0100
  [PATCH 4/8] cpufreq/schedutil: sysfs capacity margin tunable Michael Turquette <mturquette@baylibre.com> - 2016-03-14 06:30 +0100
    Re: [PATCH 4/8] cpufreq/schedutil: sysfs capacity margin tunable Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> - 2016-03-15 22:30 +0100
      Re: [PATCH 4/8] cpufreq/schedutil: sysfs capacity margin tunable Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> - 2016-03-15 22:50 +0100
        Re: [PATCH 4/8] cpufreq/schedutil: sysfs capacity margin tunable Steve Muckle <steve.muckle@linaro.org> - 2016-03-16 04:40 +0100
          Re: [PATCH 4/8] cpufreq/schedutil: sysfs capacity margin tunable Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> - 2016-03-16 09:10 +0100
            Re: [PATCH 4/8] cpufreq/schedutil: sysfs capacity margin tunable Juri Lelli <Juri.Lelli@arm.com> - 2016-03-16 11:10 +0100
              Re: [PATCH 4/8] cpufreq/schedutil: sysfs capacity margin tunable Steve Muckle <steve.muckle@linaro.org> - 2016-03-16 19:00 +0100
                Re: [PATCH 4/8] cpufreq/schedutil: sysfs capacity margin tunable Michael Turquette <mturquette@baylibre.com> - 2016-03-16 23:10 +0100
                Re: [PATCH 4/8] cpufreq/schedutil: sysfs capacity margin tunable Juri Lelli <Juri.Lelli@arm.com> - 2016-03-17 10:40 +0100
                Re: [PATCH 4/8] cpufreq/schedutil: sysfs capacity margin tunable Steve Muckle <steve.muckle@linaro.org> - 2016-03-17 15:00 +0100
                Re: [PATCH 4/8] cpufreq/schedutil: sysfs capacity margin tunable Patrick Bellasi <patrick.bellasi@arm.com> - 2016-03-17 17:00 +0100
            Re: [PATCH 4/8] cpufreq/schedutil: sysfs capacity margin tunable "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rafael@kernel.org> - 2016-03-16 13:50 +0100
          Re: [PATCH 4/8] cpufreq/schedutil: sysfs capacity margin tunable Michael Turquette <mturquette@baylibre.com> - 2016-03-16 23:10 +0100
  [PATCH 1/8] sched/cpufreq: remove cpufreq_trigger_update() Michael Turquette <mturquette@baylibre.com> - 2016-03-14 06:30 +0100
    Re: [PATCH 1/8] sched/cpufreq: remove cpufreq_trigger_update() Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> - 2016-03-15 22:20 +0100
      Re: [PATCH 1/8] sched/cpufreq: remove cpufreq_trigger_update() Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> - 2016-03-15 23:00 +0100
    Re: [PATCH 1/8] sched/cpufreq: remove cpufreq_trigger_update() Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> - 2016-03-16 09:10 +0100
  [PATCH 5/8] sched/cpufreq: pass sched class into cpufreq_update_util Michael Turquette <mturquette@baylibre.com> - 2016-03-14 06:30 +0100
    Re: [PATCH 5/8] sched/cpufreq: pass sched class into  cpufreq_update_util Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> - 2016-03-15 22:30 +0100
      Re: [PATCH 5/8] sched/cpufreq: pass sched class into  cpufreq_update_util Steve Muckle <steve.muckle@linaro.org> - 2016-03-16 05:00 +0100
      Re: [PATCH 5/8] sched/cpufreq: pass sched class into  cpufreq_update_util Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> - 2016-03-16 08:50 +0100
        Re: [PATCH 5/8] sched/cpufreq: pass sched class into cpufreq_update_util Vincent Guittot <vincent.guittot@linaro.org> - 2016-03-16 09:40 +0100
          Re: [PATCH 5/8] sched/cpufreq: pass sched class into  cpufreq_update_util Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> - 2016-03-16 10:00 +0100
            Re: [PATCH 5/8] sched/cpufreq: pass sched class into cpufreq_update_util Vincent Guittot <vincent.guittot@linaro.org> - 2016-03-16 10:20 +0100
            Re: [PATCH 5/8] sched/cpufreq: pass sched class into cpufreq_update_util "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rafael@kernel.org> - 2016-03-16 13:40 +0100
              Re: [PATCH 5/8] sched/cpufreq: pass sched class into  cpufreq_update_util Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> - 2016-03-16 14:20 +0100
                Re: [PATCH 5/8] sched/cpufreq: pass sched class into cpufreq_update_util "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rafael@kernel.org> - 2016-03-16 14:30 +0100
                Re: [PATCH 5/8] sched/cpufreq: pass sched class into  cpufreq_update_util Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> - 2016-03-16 14:50 +0100
  [PATCH 8/8] sched: prefer cpufreq_scale_freq_capacity Michael Turquette <mturquette@baylibre.com> - 2016-03-14 06:30 +0100
    Re: [PATCH 8/8] sched: prefer cpufreq_scale_freq_capacity Dietmar Eggemann <dietmar.eggemann@arm.com> - 2016-03-15 20:20 +0100
      Re: [PATCH 8/8] sched: prefer cpufreq_scale_freq_capacity Michael Turquette <mturquette@baylibre.com> - 2016-03-15 21:50 +0100
        Re: [PATCH 8/8] sched: prefer cpufreq_scale_freq_capacity Dietmar Eggemann <dietmar.eggemann@arm.com> - 2016-03-16 20:50 +0100
          Re: [PATCH 8/8] sched: prefer cpufreq_scale_freq_capacity Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> - 2016-03-16 21:10 +0100
            Re: [PATCH 8/8] sched: prefer cpufreq_scale_freq_capacity "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@rjwysocki.net> - 2016-03-16 22:40 +0100
    Re: [PATCH 8/8] sched: prefer cpufreq_scale_freq_capacity Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> - 2016-03-15 22:50 +0100
      Re: [PATCH 8/8] sched: prefer cpufreq_scale_freq_capacity Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> - 2016-03-16 08:50 +0100
        Re: [PATCH 8/8] sched: prefer cpufreq_scale_freq_capacity Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> - 2016-03-16 13:50 +0100
  [PATCH 2/8] sched/fair: add margin to utilization update Michael Turquette <mturquette@baylibre.com> - 2016-03-14 06:30 +0100
    Re: [PATCH 2/8] sched/fair: add margin to utilization update Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> - 2016-03-15 22:20 +0100
      Re: [PATCH 2/8] sched/fair: add margin to utilization update Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> - 2016-03-15 22:50 +0100
    Re: [PATCH 2/8] sched/fair: add margin to utilization update Steve Muckle <steve.muckle@linaro.org> - 2016-03-16 04:00 +0100
      Re: [PATCH 2/8] sched/fair: add margin to utilization update Michael Turquette <mturquette@baylibre.com> - 2016-03-16 23:20 +0100
  [PATCH 3/8] sched/cpufreq: new cfs capacity margin helpers Michael Turquette <mturquette@baylibre.com> - 2016-03-14 06:30 +0100
    Re: [PATCH 3/8] sched/cpufreq: new cfs capacity margin helpers Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> - 2016-03-15 22:20 +0100
  Re: [PATCH 0/8] schedutil enhancements "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@rjwysocki.net> - 2016-03-16 01:10 +0100

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