Re: [PATCH V3 2/5] cpufreq: ondemand: update sampling rate immediately

[Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@linaro.org>]

On 28-10-15, 07:28, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
> Your argument seems to be that it should be OK to do the
> cancel_delayed_work_sync()/gov_queue_work() combo in all cases, because
> even if the new rate is greater than the old one, the user may actually
> want it to take effect immediately and it shouldn't hurt to skip the next
> sample anyway in that case.
> 
> Is this really the case, though?  What about the old rate is 1s, the new one
> is 2s and the timer is just about to expire?  Won't the canceling effectively
> move the next sample 3s away from the previous one which may not be desirable?
> 
> The current code just allows the timer to expire, unless that would prevent
> the new rate from taking effect for too long, which seems perfectly reasonable
> to me.

Okay, what about this case: old rate is 1s, new rate it 5s and we have
just serviced the timer. With the current code we will receive
evaluate again after 1 second instead of 5. Is that desirable ?

I didn't wanted to keep special code for such corner cases. And then
how many times are we going to update sampling rates ?

But if we want to do something special, then we may schedule the work
for following delay:

delay = shared->time_stamp + new_sampling_rate.

shared->time_stamp is the last time we evaluated the load.

With this, we will be at shoot at the exact requested time, relative
to the last time we evaluated the loads.

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viresh