linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v9 08/15] sched/topology: Make Energy Aware Scheduling depend on schedutil

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Message-ID: <CAJZ5v0g0cca+wuZocwwt5y+a7FS6Y8qDDf27KftRQ_1Dy6-7XQ@mail.gmail.com>
Date:   Thu, 22 Nov 2018 16:49:04 +0100
From:   "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rafael@...nel.org>
To:     Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
        Quentin Perret <quentin.perret@....com>
Cc:     "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@...ysocki.net>,
        Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Linux PM <linux-pm@...r.kernel.org>,
        Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>,
        Dietmar Eggemann <dietmar.eggemann@....com>,
        Morten Rasmussen <morten.rasmussen@....com>,
        Chris Redpath <chris.redpath@....com>,
        Patrick Bellasi <patrick.bellasi@....com>,
        Valentin Schneider <valentin.schneider@....com>,
        Vincent Guittot <vincent.guittot@...aro.org>,
        Thara Gopinath <thara.gopinath@...aro.org>,
        Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@...aro.org>,
        Todd Kjos <tkjos@...gle.com>,
        Joel Fernandes <joel@...lfernandes.org>,
        Steve Muckle <smuckle@...gle.com>, adharmap@...eaurora.org,
        Saravana Kannan <skannan@...eaurora.org>,
        Pavan Kondeti <pkondeti@...eaurora.org>,
        Juri Lelli <juri.lelli@...hat.com>,
        Eduardo Valentin <edubezval@...il.com>,
        Srinivas Pandruvada <srinivas.pandruvada@...ux.intel.com>,
        currojerez@...eup.net, Javi Merino <javi.merino@...nel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v9 08/15] sched/topology: Make Energy Aware Scheduling
 depend on schedutil

On Thu, Nov 22, 2018 at 3:05 PM Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org> wrote:
>
> On Mon, Nov 19, 2018 at 02:18:50PM +0000, Quentin Perret wrote:
> > +                     if (rd->pd)
> > +                             pr_warn("rd %*pbl: Disabling EAS, schedutil is mandatory\n",
> > +                                             cpumask_pr_args(cpu_map));
> > +                     goto free;
>
> I would have preferred just not allowing the governor to change at all,
> but if you want to allow that, this is, I suppose, the best you can do.
>
> Rafael, are you otherwise OK with the grubbing inside cpufreq?

Sort of. :-)

I would put the sched_cpufreq_governor_change() header (and the static
inline stub of it) into linux/cpufreq.h (instead of
linux/sched/cpufreq.h) so that cpufreq.c doesn't have to include
linux/sched/cpufreq.h which is kind of confusing.

Apart from that the changes are fine by me.