linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH V2 3/9] cpufreq: ondemand: only queue canceled works from update_sampling

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Date:	Wed, 09 Sep 2015 03:06:39 +0200
From:	"Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@...ysocki.net>
To:	Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@...aro.org>
Cc:	linaro-kernel@...ts.linaro.org, linux-pm@...r.kernel.org,
	preeti.lkml@...il.com, open list <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH V2 3/9] cpufreq: ondemand: only queue canceled works from update_sampling_rate()

On Tuesday, September 08, 2015 07:28:31 AM Viresh Kumar wrote:
> On 08-09-15, 03:11, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
> > There really are two cases, either you pass a CPU or gov_queue_work() has to
> > walk policy->cpus.
> 
> Right (At least for now, we are doing just that.)
> 
> > Doing it the way you did hides that IMO.
> 
> Maybe. But I see it otherwise. Adding special meaning to a variable
> (like int cpu == -1 being the special case to specify policy->cpus)
> hides things morei, as we need to look at how it is decoded finally in
> the routine gov_queue_work().

Oh well.

I've just realized that if you combined this patch with the [6/9],
you wouldn't need to make any changes to gov_queue_work() at all,
because that patch removes the case in point entirely.

Thanks,
Rafael

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