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Date:   Tue, 7 Nov 2017 09:49:58 +0000
From:   Chris Redpath <chris.redpath@....com>
To:     Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@...aro.org>,
        "Rafael J . Wysocki" <rjw@...ysocki.net>
Cc:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-pm@...r.kernel.org,
        Morten Rasmussen <morten.rasmussen@....com>,
        Dietmar Eggemann <dietmar.eggemann@....com>,
        Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>,
        Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3] cpufreq: schedutil: Examine the correct CPU when we
 update util

Hi Viresh, Rafael,

Without this patch, schedutil is totally broken for us - is
there any chance at all this could go in 4.14 or is it just
too late?

Best Regards,
Chris

On 03/11/17 15:45, Viresh Kumar wrote:
> On 03-11-17, 13:36, Chris Redpath wrote:
>> After
>> 674e75411fc2 ("sched: cpufreq: Allow remote cpufreq callbacks")
>>
>> We stopped always reading utilization for the cpu we are running
>> the governor on, and instead read it for the cpu which we've been
>> told has updated utilization. This is stored in sugov_cpu->cpu.
>>
>> The value is set in sugov_register but we clear it in sugov_start
>> which leads to always looking at the utilization of CPU0 instead
>> of the correct one.
>>
>> Let's fix this by consolidating the initialization code into
>> sugov_start().
>>
>> Fixes: 674e75411fc2 ("sched: cpufreq: Allow remote cpufreq callbacks")
>> Signed-off-by: Chris Redpath <chris.redpath@....com>
>> Reviewed-by: Patrick Bellasi <patrick.bellasi@....com>
>> Reviewed-by: Brendan Jackman <brendan.jackman@....com>
>> Cc: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@...ysocki.net>
>> Cc: Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@...aro.org>
>> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>
>> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
>> ---
>>   kernel/sched/cpufreq_schedutil.c | 6 +-----
>>   1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 5 deletions(-)
>
> Acked-by: Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@...aro.org>
>
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