Messages in this thread | | | From | "Rafael J. Wysocki" <> | Date | Tue, 22 May 2018 13:42:05 +0200 | Subject | Re: [PATCH v2] schedutil: Allow cpufreq requests to be made even when kthread kicked |
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On Tue, May 22, 2018 at 1:38 PM, Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@linaro.org> wrote: > On 22-05-18, 13:31, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote: >> So below is my (compiled-only) version of the $subject patch, obviously based >> on the Joel's work. >> >> Roughly, what it does is to move the fast_switch_enabled path entirely to >> sugov_update_single() and take the spinlock around sugov_update_commit() >> in the one-CPU case too. >> >> --- >> kernel/sched/cpufreq_schedutil.c | 57 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++------------- >> 1 file changed, 38 insertions(+), 19 deletions(-) >> >> Index: linux-pm/kernel/sched/cpufreq_schedutil.c >> =================================================================== >> --- linux-pm.orig/kernel/sched/cpufreq_schedutil.c >> +++ linux-pm/kernel/sched/cpufreq_schedutil.c >> @@ -92,9 +92,6 @@ static bool sugov_should_update_freq(str >> !cpufreq_can_do_remote_dvfs(sg_policy->policy)) >> return false; >> >> - if (sg_policy->work_in_progress) >> - return false; >> - >> if (unlikely(sg_policy->need_freq_update)) >> return true; >> >> @@ -103,25 +100,25 @@ static bool sugov_should_update_freq(str >> return delta_ns >= sg_policy->freq_update_delay_ns; >> } >> >> -static void sugov_update_commit(struct sugov_policy *sg_policy, u64 time, >> - unsigned int next_freq) >> +static bool sugov_update_next_freq(struct sugov_policy *sg_policy, u64 time, >> + unsigned int next_freq) >> { >> - struct cpufreq_policy *policy = sg_policy->policy; >> - >> if (sg_policy->next_freq == next_freq) >> - return; >> + return false; >> >> sg_policy->next_freq = next_freq; >> sg_policy->last_freq_update_time = time; >> >> - if (policy->fast_switch_enabled) { >> - next_freq = cpufreq_driver_fast_switch(policy, next_freq); >> - if (!next_freq) >> - return; >> + return true; >> +} >> >> - policy->cur = next_freq; >> - trace_cpu_frequency(next_freq, smp_processor_id()); >> - } else { >> +static void sugov_update_commit(struct sugov_policy *sg_policy, u64 time, >> + unsigned int next_freq) >> +{ >> + if (!sugov_update_next_freq(sg_policy, time, next_freq)) >> + return; >> + >> + if (!sg_policy->work_in_progress) { >> sg_policy->work_in_progress = true; >> irq_work_queue(&sg_policy->irq_work); >> } >> @@ -277,6 +274,7 @@ static void sugov_update_single(struct u >> { >> struct sugov_cpu *sg_cpu = container_of(hook, struct sugov_cpu, update_util); >> struct sugov_policy *sg_policy = sg_cpu->sg_policy; >> + struct cpufreq_policy *policy = sg_policy->policy; >> unsigned long util, max; >> unsigned int next_f; >> bool busy; >> @@ -307,7 +305,23 @@ static void sugov_update_single(struct u >> sg_policy->cached_raw_freq = 0; >> } >> >> - sugov_update_commit(sg_policy, time, next_f); >> + if (policy->fast_switch_enabled) { > > Why do you assume that fast switch isn't possible in shared policy > cases ? It infact is already enabled for few drivers.
OK, so the fast_switch thing needs to be left outside of the spinlock in the single case only. Fair enough.
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