Re: [PATCH 1/8] sched/cpufreq: remove cpufreq_trigger_update()

From: Peter Zijlstra
Date: Tue Mar 15 2016 - 17:15:24 EST


On Sun, Mar 13, 2016 at 10:22:05PM -0700, Michael Turquette wrote:
> cpufreq_trigger_update() was introduced in "cpufreq: Rework the
> scheduler hooks for triggering updates"[0]. Consensus is that this
> helper is not needed and removing it will aid in experimenting with
> deadline and rt capacity requests.
>
> Instead of reverting the above patch, which includes useful renaming of
> data structures and related functions, simply remove the function,
> update affected kerneldoc and change rt.c and deadline.c to use
> cpufreq_update_util().

This fails to explain how the need for these hooks is dealt with.