Messages in this thread | | | From | "Rafael J. Wysocki" <> | Date | Tue, 11 Dec 2018 13:22:41 +0100 | Subject | Re: [PATCH v10 02/15] sched/cpufreq: Prepare schedutil for Energy Aware Scheduling |
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On Tue, Dec 11, 2018 at 1:17 PM Quentin Perret <quentin.perret@arm.com> wrote: > > Hi Rafael, > > On Tuesday 11 Dec 2018 at 13:01:24 (+0100), Rafael J. Wysocki wrote: > > On Mon, Dec 3, 2018 at 10:56 AM Quentin Perret <quentin.perret@arm.com> wrote: > > > > [cut] > > > > > #ifdef CONFIG_CPU_FREQ_GOV_SCHEDUTIL > > > +/** > > > + * enum schedutil_type - CPU utilization type > > > + * @FREQUENCY_UTIL: Utilization used to select frequency > > > + * @ENERGY_UTIL: Utilization used during energy calculation > > > + * > > > + * The utilization signals of all scheduling classes (CFS/RT/DL) and IRQ time > > > + * need to be aggregated differently depending on the usage made of them. This > > > + * enum is used within schedutil_freq_util() to differentiate the types of > > > + * utilization expected by the callers, and adjust the aggregation accordingly. > > > + */ > > > +enum schedutil_type { > > > + FREQUENCY_UTIL, > > > + ENERGY_UTIL, > > > +}; > > > > Why not to use bool instead of this? Do you expect to have more than > > just two values in the future? If so, what would be the third one? > > Indeed, the only reason is that an enum is easier to extend, if need be. > I think you mentioned some time ago that CPUIdle could be, in principle, > interested in having access to aggregated utilization signals of CPUs: > > https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/CAJZ5v0j=EYnANGAj9bd44eeux1eCfeMtdn9npe5pSAzE8EVKaA@mail.gmail.com/ > > So yeah, I kept Peter's original enum and went for documenting the type, > as you suggested on v7 :-)
OK, so please feel free to add
Acked-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
to this patch.
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