Re: [PATCH 8/12] cpufreq: governor: Make governor private data per-policy

From: Viresh Kumar
Date: Thu Feb 18 2016 - 01:03:42 EST


On 18-02-16, 02:30, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
> From: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@xxxxxxxxx>
>
> Some fields in struct od_cpu_dbs_info_s and struct cs_cpu_dbs_info_s
> are only used for a limited set of CPUs. Namely, if a policy is
> shared between multiple CPUs, those fields will only be used for one
> of them (policy->cpu). This means that they really are per-policy
> rather than per-CPU and holding room for them in per-CPU data
> structures is generally wasteful. Also moving those fields into
> per-policy data structures will allow some significant simplifications
> to be made going forward.
>
> For this reason, introduce struct cs_policy_dbs_info and
> struct od_policy_dbs_info to hold those fields. Define each of the
> new structures as an extension of struct policy_dbs_info (such that
> struct policy_dbs_info is embedded in each of them) and introduce
> new ->alloc and ->free governor callbacks to allocate and free
> those structures, respectively, such that ->alloc() will return
> a pointer to the struct policy_dbs_info embedded in the allocated
> data structure and ->free() will take that pointer as its argument.
>
> With that, modify the code accessing the data fields in question
> in per-CPU data objects to look for them in the new structures
> via the struct policy_dbs_info pointer available to it and drop
> them from struct od_cpu_dbs_info_s and struct cs_cpu_dbs_info_s.

Fantastic, that's what I just suggested in the previous patch :)


Acked-by: Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@xxxxxxxxxx>

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