linux-kernel - Re: [RFC][PATCH v2 2/2] cpufreq: schedutil: Avoid decreasing frequency of busy CPUs

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Date:   Tue, 21 Mar 2017 16:18:27 +0100
From:   Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
To:     Patrick Bellasi <patrick.bellasi@....com>
Cc:     "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@...ysocki.net>,
        Vincent Guittot <vincent.guittot@...aro.org>,
        Linux PM <linux-pm@...r.kernel.org>,
        LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Srinivas Pandruvada <srinivas.pandruvada@...ux.intel.com>,
        Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@...aro.org>,
        Juri Lelli <juri.lelli@....com>,
        Joel Fernandes <joelaf@...gle.com>,
        Morten Rasmussen <morten.rasmussen@....com>,
        Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC][PATCH v2 2/2] cpufreq: schedutil: Avoid decreasing
 frequency of busy CPUs


Seriously people, trim your replies.

On Tue, Mar 21, 2017 at 03:08:20PM +0000, Patrick Bellasi wrote:

> And than we can move this bit into an inline function, something like e.g.:
> 
>    static inline bool sugov_this_cpu_is_busy()
>    {
>            return this_rq()->rd->overloaded
>    }

No, that's just entirely and utterly wrong. It being in rd means its
very much not about _this_ CPU in any way.