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)
next prev parent 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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