RE: [PATCH 2/2] PM / devfreq: Generic cpufreq governor

From: MyungJoo Ham
Date: Mon May 28 2018 - 02:00:34 EST


>Many CPU architectures have caches that can scale independent of the CPUs.
>Frequency scaling of the caches is necessary to make sure the cache is not
>a performance bottleneck that leads to poor performance and power. The same
>idea applies for RAM/DDR.
>
>To achieve this, this patch series adds a generic devfreq governor that can
>listen to the frequency transitions of each CPU frequency domain and then
>adjusts the frequency of the cache (or any devfreq device) based on the
>frequency of the CPUs.

I agree that we have some hardware pieces that want to configure
frequencies based on the CPUfreq.

Creating a devfreq governor that configures devfreq-freq
based on incoming events (CPUFreq-transition-event in this case)
is indeed a good idea.

However, I would like to ask the followings:
The overall code appears to be overly complex compared what you need.
- Do you really need to revive "CPUFREQ POLICY" events for this?
especially when you are going to look at "first CPU" only?


Cheers,
MyungJoo