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From: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
To: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Morten Rasmussen <morten.rasmussen@arm.com>,
	mingo@kernel.org, pjt@google.com, rjw@sisk.pl,
	dirk.j.brandewie@intel.com, vincent.guittot@linaro.org,
	alex.shi@linaro.org, preeti@linux.vnet.ibm.com, efault@gmx.de,
	corbet@lwn.net, tglx@linutronix.de, catalin.marinas@arm.com,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linaro-kernel@lists.linaro.org
Subject: Re: [RFC][PATCH 4/7] sched: power: Remove power capacity hints for kworker threads
Date: Mon, 14 Oct 2013 08:14:25 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <525C0A51.2080407@linux.intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20131014133356.GN3081@twins.programming.kicks-ass.net>

On 10/14/2013 6:33 AM, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 11, 2013 at 06:19:14PM +0100, Morten Rasmussen wrote:
>> Removing power hints for kworker threads enables easier use of
>> workqueues in the power driver late callback. That would otherwise
>> lead to an endless loop unless it is prevented in the power driver.
>
> There's many kworker users; some of them actually consume lots of
> cputime. Therefore how did you come to the conclusion that excepting all
> users was the better choice of a little added complexity in the one
> place where it actually matters?

.. and likely only for a very few architectures

x86, and I suspect modern ARM, can change frequency synchronously.
(using an instruction or maybe two or three for ARM)


  reply	other threads:[~2013-10-14 15:14 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 29+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-10-11 17:19 [RFC][PATCH 0/7] Power-aware scheduling v2 Morten Rasmussen
2013-10-11 17:19 ` [RFC][PATCH 1/7] Initial power driver interface infrastructure Morten Rasmussen
2013-10-11 17:19 ` [RFC][PATCH 2/7] sched: power: Power driver late callback interface Morten Rasmussen
2013-10-14 13:42   ` Peter Zijlstra
2013-10-11 17:19 ` [RFC][PATCH 3/7] sched: power: go_faster/slower power driver hints Morten Rasmussen
2013-10-12  2:58   ` Michael wang
2013-10-14 12:42     ` Morten Rasmussen
2013-10-14 13:48   ` Peter Zijlstra
2013-10-14 15:55     ` Morten Rasmussen
2013-10-11 17:19 ` [RFC][PATCH 4/7] sched: power: Remove power capacity hints for kworker threads Morten Rasmussen
2013-10-14 13:33   ` Peter Zijlstra
2013-10-14 15:14     ` Arjan van de Ven [this message]
2013-10-17 16:40       ` Morten Rasmussen
2013-10-17 16:54         ` Peter Zijlstra
2013-10-17 17:18           ` Arjan van de Ven
2013-10-18  8:47             ` Morten Rasmussen
2013-10-18 13:43               ` Arjan van de Ven
2013-10-18  8:38           ` Morten Rasmussen
2013-10-14 16:10     ` Morten Rasmussen
2013-10-14 16:13       ` Arjan van de Ven
2013-10-14 17:19         ` Morten Rasmussen
2013-10-11 17:19 ` [RFC][PATCH 5/7] sched: power: Increase cpu capacity based on rq tracked load Morten Rasmussen
2013-10-11 17:19 ` [RFC][PATCH 6/7] sched: power: cpufreq: Initial schedpower cpufreq governor/power driver Morten Rasmussen
2013-10-11 17:19 ` [RFC][PATCH 7/7] sched: power: Let the power driver choose the best wake-up cpu Morten Rasmussen
2013-10-14 13:32 ` [RFC][PATCH 0/7] Power-aware scheduling v2 Peter Zijlstra
2013-10-14 17:15   ` Morten Rasmussen
2013-10-14 17:31     ` Peter Zijlstra
2013-10-15 17:05       ` Morten Rasmussen
2013-10-15  9:57   ` Preeti U Murthy

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