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From: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
To: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rafael@kernel.org>
Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@rjwysocki.net>,
	Linux PM <linux-pm@vger.kernel.org>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@linaro.org>,
	Patrick Bellasi <patrick.bellasi@arm.com>,
	Vincent Guittot <vincent.guittot@linaro.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] cpufreq: schedutil: Always trace frequency if it does not change
Date: Wed, 22 Mar 2017 15:21:16 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20170322142116.qpe2faqwbmlmhft7@hirez.programming.kicks-ass.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAJZ5v0jFDQ9fxHwVWM_Dg-Or5y6o_YJ5=sdyQDZ3Dt0U2bqy_A@mail.gmail.com>

On Wed, Mar 22, 2017 at 01:52:04PM +0100, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 22, 2017 at 10:29 AM, Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> wrote:

> > So why not fix the tools?
> 
> Because I can't.
> 
> I just can't go and fix all of the tools binaries that people use out
> there and I want them to use recent kernels at the same time.
> 

Thing is; you're now letting random tracepoint user dictate kernel
implementation. That's a bad state to be in.

(and why I hate tracepoint to begin with)

  parent reply	other threads:[~2017-03-22 14:21 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-03-22  0:56 [PATCH] cpufreq: schedutil: Always trace frequency if it does not change Rafael J. Wysocki
2017-03-22  4:16 ` Viresh Kumar
2017-03-22  9:29 ` Peter Zijlstra
2017-03-22  9:56   ` Viresh Kumar
2017-03-22 12:52   ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2017-03-22 14:05     ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2017-03-22 14:21     ` Peter Zijlstra [this message]
2017-03-22 17:13       ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2017-03-22 17:32 ` [PATCH v2] cpufreq: schedutil: Trace frequency only if it has changed Rafael J. Wysocki
2017-03-23  4:32   ` Viresh Kumar

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