linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v4 1/5] cpufreq: Don't wait for CPU to going offline to restart governor

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Message-ID: <CAKohpo=vFd7BN07DfasZGBQWPAjFyKRAQsQTOtjLQ4QebzMzGA@mail.gmail.com>
Date:	Tue, 12 Aug 2014 10:10:20 +0530
From:	Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@...aro.org>
To:	Saravana Kannan <skannan@...eaurora.org>
Cc:	"Rafael J . Wysocki" <rjw@...ysocki.net>,
	Todd Poynor <toddpoynor@...gle.com>,
	"Srivatsa S . Bhat" <srivatsa@....edu>,
	"linux-pm@...r.kernel.org" <linux-pm@...r.kernel.org>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	"linux-arm-msm@...r.kernel.org" <linux-arm-msm@...r.kernel.org>,
	"linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org" 
	<linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org>,
	Stephen Boyd <sboyd@...eaurora.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 1/5] cpufreq: Don't wait for CPU to going offline to
 restart governor

On 12 August 2014 03:41, Saravana Kannan <skannan@...eaurora.org> wrote:

> Suggestions welcome. I think the current one explains the main point of this change.

Atleast we need a s/going/go

>> There is a down_read() present early in this routine and we better update this
>> at that place only.
>
>
> I would rather not. My v1 patch series was super refactored to allow a lot of reuse, etc. But you guys complained about the diffs being confusing (which was a valid point).
>
> Also, if we are talking about refactoring this, there's room for much better refactor at the end of the series. I will add a patch to the series to do the refactoring.

The kind of change I am suggesting you can be done in the original
patch only. What we told you in the earlier reviews was to break patches
into meaningful sections instead of doing everything in a single patch.

> That only runs if cpu != policy->cpu. This needs to run irrespective of that.

Oh yes, correct.

> You mean the log in the cover letter? Will do.

Coverletter isn't the right place for mentioning such important things
as it never gets commited. I was talking about the commit log.
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