Re: [PATCH 1/5] thermal: core: Add callback for governors with cooling instances change

[Lukasz Luba <lukasz.luba@arm.com>]

On 12/11/23 20:41, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 6, 2023 at 12:30 PM Lukasz Luba <lukasz.luba@arm.com> wrote:
>>
>> Allow governors to react to the changes in the cooling instances list.
>> That makes possible to move memory allocations related to the number of
>> cooling instances out of the throttle() callback. The throttle() callback
>> is called much more often thus the cost of managing allocations there is
>> an extra overhead. The list of cooling instances is not changed that often
>> and it can be handled in dedicated callback. That will save CPU cycles
>> in the throttle() code path.  Both callbacks code paths are protected with
>> the same thermal zone lock, which guaranties the list of cooling instances
>> is consistent.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Lukasz Luba <lukasz.luba@arm.com>
> 
> I agree with the direction, but I'm wondering if changes of the
> bindings between trip points and cooling devices are the only type of
> changes which can affect the IPA.  For instance, what if the trip
> point temperatures are updated?

Yes, that example sounds also interesting for a callback. The trip
temperature update won't affect the allocation/free code, though.

> 
> If it needs to react to other types of changes in general, it may be
> good to introduce a more general callback that can be made handle them
> in the future.

Fair enough.

> 
>> ---
>>   drivers/thermal/thermal_core.c | 14 ++++++++++++++
>>   include/linux/thermal.h        |  4 ++++
>>   2 files changed, 18 insertions(+)
>>
>> diff --git a/drivers/thermal/thermal_core.c b/drivers/thermal/thermal_core.c
>> index 625ba07cbe2f..c993b86f7fb5 100644
>> --- a/drivers/thermal/thermal_core.c
>> +++ b/drivers/thermal/thermal_core.c
>> @@ -314,6 +314,15 @@ static void handle_non_critical_trips(struct thermal_zone_device *tz,
>>                         def_governor->throttle(tz, trip);
>>   }
>>
>> +static void handle_instances_list_update(struct thermal_zone_device *tz)
>> +{
>> +
>> +       if (!tz->governor || !tz->governor->instances_update)
>> +               return;
>> +
>> +       tz->governor->instances_update(tz);
>> +}
>> +
>>   void thermal_zone_device_critical(struct thermal_zone_device *tz)
>>   {
>>          /*
>> @@ -723,6 +732,8 @@ int thermal_bind_cdev_to_trip(struct thermal_zone_device *tz,
>>                  list_add_tail(&dev->tz_node, &tz->thermal_instances);
>>                  list_add_tail(&dev->cdev_node, &cdev->thermal_instances);
>>                  atomic_set(&tz->need_update, 1);
>> +
>> +               handle_instances_list_update(tz);
>>          }
>>          mutex_unlock(&cdev->lock);
>>          mutex_unlock(&tz->lock);
>> @@ -781,6 +792,9 @@ int thermal_unbind_cdev_from_trip(struct thermal_zone_device *tz,
>>                  if (pos->tz == tz && pos->trip == trip && pos->cdev == cdev) {
>>                          list_del(&pos->tz_node);
>>                          list_del(&pos->cdev_node);
>> +
>> +                       handle_instances_list_update(tz);
>> +
>>                          mutex_unlock(&cdev->lock);
>>                          mutex_unlock(&tz->lock);
>>                          goto unbind;
>> diff --git a/include/linux/thermal.h b/include/linux/thermal.h
>> index c7190e2dfcb4..e7b2a1f4bab0 100644
>> --- a/include/linux/thermal.h
>> +++ b/include/linux/thermal.h
>> @@ -195,6 +195,9 @@ struct thermal_zone_device {
>>    *                     thermal zone.
>>    * @throttle:  callback called for every trip point even if temperature is
>>    *             below the trip point temperature
>> + * @instances_update:  callback called when thermal zone instances list
>> + *     i               has changed (e.g. added new or removed), which
>> + *                     may help to offload work for governor like allocations
>>    * @governor_list:     node in thermal_governor_list (in thermal_core.c)
>>    */
>>   struct thermal_governor {
>> @@ -203,6 +206,7 @@ struct thermal_governor {
>>          void (*unbind_from_tz)(struct thermal_zone_device *tz);
>>          int (*throttle)(struct thermal_zone_device *tz,
>>                          const struct thermal_trip *trip);
>> +       void (*instances_update)(struct thermal_zone_device *tz);
> 
> So this could be more general I think, something like (*update_tz)(),
> and it may take an additional argument representing the type of the
> change.

I agree. I'll send next version.

There is one candidate which could instantly be added to this
update reasons list:
cooling devices weight change via sysfs [1]

Thanks for the review comments!

[1] 
https://elixir.bootlin.com/linux/latest/source/drivers/thermal/thermal_sysfs.c#L959