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SubjectRe: [RFCv5 PATCH 45/46] sched/cpufreq_sched: modify pcpu_capacity handling
Hi Peter,

On 16/08/15 21:35, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 07, 2015 at 07:24:28PM +0100, Morten Rasmussen wrote:
>> From: Juri Lelli <juri.lelli@arm.com>
>>
>> Use the cpu argument of cpufreq_sched_set_cap() to handle per_cpu writes,
>> as the thing can be called remotely (e.g., from load balacing code).
>>
>> cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
>> cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Juri Lelli <juri.lelli@arm.com>
>> ---
>> kernel/sched/cpufreq_sched.c | 2 +-
>> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/kernel/sched/cpufreq_sched.c b/kernel/sched/cpufreq_sched.c
>> index 06ff183..b81ac779 100644
>> --- a/kernel/sched/cpufreq_sched.c
>> +++ b/kernel/sched/cpufreq_sched.c
>> @@ -151,7 +151,7 @@ void cpufreq_sched_set_cap(int cpu, unsigned long capacity)
>> unsigned long capacity_max = 0;
>>
>> /* update per-cpu capacity request */
>> - __this_cpu_write(pcpu_capacity, capacity);
>> + per_cpu(pcpu_capacity, cpu) = capacity;
>>
>> policy = cpufreq_cpu_get(cpu);
>> if (IS_ERR_OR_NULL(policy)) {
>
> Uhm,.. this function seems to hard assume its called for the local CPU.
> It will only use the irq_queue_work_on() if the cpufreq thing requires
> the thread, otherwise it will call the method directly on the calling
> cpu.
>

True, but we still retrieve policy from cpu passed as argument; and
then we use policy to request a freq transition, that should end up
updating the right cpu.

Thanks,

- Juri



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