Re: [PATCH V3 2/6] sched: idle: cpuidle: Check the latency req before idle

[Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>]

On Mon, Nov 10, 2014 at 04:12:47PM +0100, Daniel Lezcano wrote:
> All this is to remove the poll idle state from the x86 cpuidle driver in
> order to remove the CPUIDLE_DRIVER_STATE_START (this one forces to write
> always ugly code in the cpuidle framework).
> 
> This poll state introduces the CPUIDLE_DRIVER_STATE_START macro. If you look
> at the different governors and the code, you can checkout what kind of
> tricks this macro introduces and how that makes the code ugly.
> 
> For the sake of what ? Just a small optimization in the menu governor.
> 
> I suppose that has been introduce and then evolved on a wrong basis. So now
> we have to deal with that.
> 
> This patchset provides a first round of cleanup around the poll function,
> the next patchset will move the 5us timer optimization from the menu
> governor and the last patchset will remove the CPUIDLE_DRIVER_STATE_START
> ugly macro.

I don't get it, I've clearly not stared at it long enough, but why is
that STATE_START crap needed anywhere?

To me it appears 'natural' to have a latency_req==0 state, why does it
need so much special casing?