From: Pierre Gondois <pierre.gondois@arm.com>
To: Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@linaro.org>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Jie Zhan <zhanjie9@hisilicon.com>,
Lifeng Zheng <zhenglifeng1@huawei.com>,
Ionela Voinescu <ionela.voinescu@arm.com>,
Sumit Gupta <sumitg@nvidia.com>, Huang Rui <ray.huang@amd.com>,
"Gautham R. Shenoy" <gautham.shenoy@amd.com>,
Mario Limonciello <mario.limonciello@amd.com>,
Perry Yuan <perry.yuan@amd.com>,
"Rafael J. Wysocki" <rafael@kernel.org>,
Srinivas Pandruvada <srinivas.pandruvada@linux.intel.com>,
Len Brown <lenb@kernel.org>,
Saravana Kannan <saravanak@kernel.org>,
linux-pm@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v6 3/4] cpufreq: Set policy->min and max as real QoS constraints
Date: Wed, 25 Mar 2026 17:54:46 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <583fd75b-d510-488b-854d-51312dd18e56@arm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <ir3mvkz7bbzwtsydrfdhnkkkseaj6fclzgiw3soxb673xvhczk@fukk5ad7jrtq>
On 3/25/26 07:49, Viresh Kumar wrote:
> On 24-03-26, 12:40, Pierre Gondois wrote:
>> Being able to set the min/max_freq_req from the driver might be
>> something that is needed, cf:
>> https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20260213100633.15413-1-zhangpengjie2@huawei.com/
>>
>> It would also allow to have a common way to set policy->min/max values
>> as they are set to the the cpuinfo.min/max_freq.
>>
>> On the other hand I agree that I didn't test all the possible paths
>> for this change, so this is a bit audacious.
>>
>>
>> What about adding the following to have the values set for all drivers:
>>
>> diff --git a/drivers/cpufreq/cpufreq.c b/drivers/cpufreq/cpufreq.c
>>
>> index 70814c567243b..3a1e5f58a301f 100644
>> --- a/drivers/cpufreq/cpufreq.c
>> +++ b/drivers/cpufreq/cpufreq.c
>> @@ -1530,6 +1530,9 @@ static int cpufreq_policy_online(struct cpufreq_policy
>> *policy,
>> CPUFREQ_CREATE_POLICY, policy);
>> }
>>
>> + policy->max = policy->cpuinfo.max_freq;
>> + policy->min = policy->cpuinfo.min_freq;
>> +
>> if (cpufreq_driver->get && has_target()) {
>> policy->cur = cpufreq_driver->get(policy->cpu);
>> if (!policy->cur) {
> I am okay with a separate series doing all these cleanups. We can set some sort
> of rule on what is expected from the driver here and what is left from the core.
> For example driver only sets cpuinfo.max/min and core takes care of rest. This
> series would cleanup all the drivers, etc.
>
Ok,
Is the current state of this patch + the above modification acceptable ?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-03-25 16:55 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-03-17 10:17 [PATCH v6 0/4] cpufreq: Introduce boost frequency QoS Pierre Gondois
2026-03-17 10:17 ` [PATCH v6 1/4] cpufreq: Remove per-CPU QoS constraint Pierre Gondois
2026-03-18 11:13 ` Viresh Kumar
2026-03-19 9:30 ` Pierre Gondois
2026-03-20 9:18 ` Viresh Kumar
2026-03-20 9:25 ` Viresh Kumar
2026-03-24 11:39 ` Pierre Gondois
2026-03-25 6:28 ` Viresh Kumar
2026-03-20 10:04 ` zhenglifeng (A)
2026-03-17 10:17 ` [PATCH v6 2/4] cpufreq: Add boost_freq_req QoS request Pierre Gondois
2026-03-18 2:50 ` zhenglifeng (A)
2026-03-18 7:56 ` Pierre Gondois
2026-03-17 10:17 ` [PATCH v6 3/4] cpufreq: Set policy->min and max as real QoS constraints Pierre Gondois
2026-03-20 10:14 ` Viresh Kumar
2026-03-24 11:40 ` Pierre Gondois
2026-03-25 6:49 ` Viresh Kumar
2026-03-25 16:54 ` Pierre Gondois [this message]
2026-03-26 4:26 ` Viresh Kumar
2026-03-17 10:17 ` [RFC PATCH v6 4/4] cpufreq/freq_table: Allow decreasing cpuinfo.max_freq Pierre Gondois
2026-03-20 10:58 ` Viresh Kumar
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