[PATCH 0/2] cpufreq: governor: Optimize work queuing in ondemand/conservative

From: Rafael J. Wysocki
Date: Fri Feb 12 2016 - 08:33:26 EST


Hi,

This is rather extreme, but I think that we should make the scheduler paths as
lightweight as reasonably possible.

[1/2] removes the atomic work counter incrementation from gov_cancel_work() as
it is not necessary any more.

[2/2] changes the way work items are handled by dbs_update_util_handler() and
dbs_work_handler() to avoid extra atomic operations in cases when they
aren't really necessary (policy objects serving one CPU only).

On top of the pm-cpufreq-test branch of linux-pm.git. Lightly tested, but
I don't have systems where policy objects are shared.

Thanks,
Rafael