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SubjectRe: [PATCH V10] powercap/drivers/idle_inject: Add an idle injection framework
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On 04/07/2018 12:49, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
> On Tuesday, June 26, 2018 1:01:05 PM CEST Viresh Kumar wrote:
>> On 26-06-18, 12:53, Daniel Lezcano wrote:
>>> Initially, the cpu_cooling device for ARM was changed by adding a new
>>> policy inserting idle cycles. The intel_powerclamp driver does a
>>> similar action.
>>>
>>> Instead of implementing idle injections privately in the cpu_cooling
>>> device, move the idle injection code in a dedicated framework and give
>>> the opportunity to other frameworks to make use of it.
>>>
>>> The framework relies on the smpboot kthreads which handles via its
>>> main loop the common code for hotplugging and [un]parking.
>>>
>>> This code was previously tested with the cpu cooling device and went
>>> through several iterations. It results now in split code and API
>>> exported in the header file. It was tested with the cpu cooling device
>>> with success.
>>>
>>> Signed-off-by: Daniel Lezcano <daniel.lezcano@linaro.org>
>>> Cc: Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@linaro.org>
>>> Cc: Eduardo Valentin <edubezval@gmail.com>
>>> Cc: Javi Merino <javi.merino@kernel.org>
>>> Cc: Leo Yan <leo.yan@linaro.org>
>>> Cc: Kevin Wangtao <kevin.wangtao@linaro.org>
>>> Cc: Vincent Guittot <vincent.guittot@linaro.org>
>>> Cc: Rui Zhang <rui.zhang@intel.com>
>>> Cc: Daniel Thompson <daniel.thompson@linaro.org>
>>> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
>>> Cc: Andrea Parri <andrea.parri@amarulasolutions.com>
>>> ---
>>>
>>> V10:
>>> - Remove set_freezable (Rafael J. Wysocki)
>>> - Reduce the prefixed names 'injection' by 'inject" (Rafael J. Wysocki)
>>> - Rename 'idle_injection_wakeup_fn()' to 'idle_inject_timer_fn()' (Rafael J. Wysocki)
>>> - Shorten label 'out_rollback_per_cpu' to 'out_rollback' (Rafael J. Wysocki)
>>
>> Reviewed-by: Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@linaro.org>
>
> I've applied the patch, but I've rewrittent all of the comments in it.
>
> Daniel, please check the result in linux-next and let me know if you see any
> problems.

I went through the comments and I don't see any problems. Thanks for
taking care of making them more clear.

-- Daniel

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