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From: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] cpufreq/schedutil: Cleanup, document and fix iowait
 boost
Date: Wed, 11 Apr 2018 12:58:28 +0200
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On Wed, Apr 11, 2018 at 11:44:45AM +0100, Patrick Bellasi wrote:
> > > - sugov_set_iowait_boost: is now in charge only to set/increase the IO
> > >      wait boost, every time a task wakes up from an IO wait.
> > > 
> > > - sugov_iowait_boost: is now in charge to reset/reduce the IO wait
> > >      boost, every time a sugov update is triggered, as well as
> > >      to (eventually) enforce the currently required IO boost value.
> > 
> > I'm not sold on those function names; feels like we can do better,
> > although I'm struggling to come up with anything sensible just now.
> 
> What about something like:
> 
>  sugov_iowait_init()
>  since here we are mainly initializing the iowait boost
> 
>  sugov_iowait_boost()
>  since here we are mainly applying the proper boost to each cpu
> 
> Although they are not really so different...

How about:

  sugov_iowait_boost() -- does the actual impulse/boost
  sugov_iowait_apply() -- applies the boost state

?