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SubjectRe: [RFC PATCH v2 4/6] sched/fair: Introduce an energy estimation helper function
On Tue, Apr 10, 2018 at 02:56:41PM +0100, Quentin Perret wrote:
> > So in the last thread there was some discussion about this; in
> > particular on how this related to schedutil and if we should tie it into
> > that.
> >
> > I think for starters tying it to schedutil is not a bad idea; ideally
> > people _should_ migrate towards using that.
> >
> > Also; I think it makes sense to better integrate cpufreq and the
> > energy-model values like what rjw already suggested, such that maybe we
> > can have cpufreq_driver_resolve_freq() return a structure containing the
> > relevant information for the selected frequency.
>
> I guess if we want to do that in the wake-up path, we would also need to
> add a new parameter to it to make sure we don't actually call into
> cpufreq_driver->resolve_freq() ...
>
> But then, we could sort of rely on cpufreq_schedutil.c::get_next_freq()
> to replace find_cap_state() ... Is this what you had in mind ?

Yes, something along those lines; we could also of course factor
get_next_freq() into two parts.

> > But implementing the frequency selection thing in multiple places like
> > now sounds like a very bad idea to me.
>
> Understood. Making sure we share the same code everywhere might have
> consequences though. I guess we'll have to either accept the cost of
> function calls in the wake-up path, or to accept to inline those
> functions for ex. Or maybe you had something else in mind ?
>
> Anyways, that's probably another good discussion topic for OSPM
> next week :-)

Yes, that wants a wee bit of discussion. Ideally we'd have a shared data
structure we can iterate instead of a chain of indirect calls.

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