Re: [PATCH V10] powercap/drivers/idle_inject: Add an idle injection framework

From: Viresh Kumar
Date: Tue Jun 26 2018 - 07:01:15 EST


On 26-06-18, 12:53, Daniel Lezcano wrote:
> Initially, the cpu_cooling device for ARM was changed by adding a new
> policy inserting idle cycles. The intel_powerclamp driver does a
> similar action.
>
> Instead of implementing idle injections privately in the cpu_cooling
> device, move the idle injection code in a dedicated framework and give
> the opportunity to other frameworks to make use of it.
>
> The framework relies on the smpboot kthreads which handles via its
> main loop the common code for hotplugging and [un]parking.
>
> This code was previously tested with the cpu cooling device and went
> through several iterations. It results now in split code and API
> exported in the header file. It was tested with the cpu cooling device
> with success.
>
> Signed-off-by: Daniel Lezcano <daniel.lezcano@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Eduardo Valentin <edubezval@xxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Javi Merino <javi.merino@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Leo Yan <leo.yan@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Kevin Wangtao <kevin.wangtao@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Vincent Guittot <vincent.guittot@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Rui Zhang <rui.zhang@xxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Daniel Thompson <daniel.thompson@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Andrea Parri <andrea.parri@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>
> V10:
> - Remove set_freezable (Rafael J. Wysocki)
> - Reduce the prefixed names 'injection' by 'inject" (Rafael J. Wysocki)
> - Rename 'idle_injection_wakeup_fn()' to 'idle_inject_timer_fn()' (Rafael J. Wysocki)
> - Shorten label 'out_rollback_per_cpu' to 'out_rollback' (Rafael J. Wysocki)

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

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