Re: [PATCH v2 02/10] cpufreq: provide data for frequency-invariant load-tracking support

From: Peter Zijlstra
Date: Mon Jul 10 2017 - 05:32:22 EST


On Sat, Jul 08, 2017 at 02:09:37PM +0200, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
> Anyway, if everyone agrees that doing it in the core is the way to go (Peter?),
> why don't you introduce a __weak function for setting policy->cur and
> override it from your arch so as to call arch_set_freq_scale() from there?
>

So I'm terminally backlogged and my recent break didn't help any with
that.

I'm at a total loss as to what is proposed here and why we need it. I
tried reading both the Changelog and patch but came up empty.