Re: [RFC PATCH 18/19] cpufreq: remove transition_lock

[Peter Zijlstra]

On Tue, Jan 19, 2016 at 04:01:55PM +0000, Juri Lelli wrote:
> Right, read path is fast, but write path still requires some sort of
> locking (malloc, copy and update). So, I'm wondering if this still pays
> off for a structure that gets written a lot.

No, not at all.

struct cpufreq_driver *driver;

void sched_util_change(unsigned int util)
{
	struct my_per_cpu_data *foo;

	rcu_read_lock();
	foo = __this_cpu_ptr(rcu_dereference(driver)->data);
	if (foo) {
		if (abs(util - foo->last_util) > 10) {
			foo->last_util = util;
			foo->set_util(util);
		}
	}
	rcu_read_unlock();
}


struct cpufreq_driver *cpufreq_flip_driver(struct cpufreq_driver *new_driver)
{
	struct cpufreq_driver *old_driver;

	mutex_lock(&cpufreq_driver_lock);
	old_driver = driver;
	rcu_assign_driver(driver, new_driver);
	if (old_driver)
		synchronize_rcu();
	mutex_unlock(&cpufreq_driver_lock);

	return old_driver;
}