Re: [PATCH 5/6] cpufreq: Reuse gov_attr_* macros in schedutil governor

[Rafael J. Wysocki]

On Thu, May 19, 2016 at 4:13 AM, Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On 18-05-16, 23:01, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
>> On Wed, May 18, 2016 at 2:25 PM, Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> > These macros can be used by governors which don't use the common
>> > governor code present in cpufreq_governor.c and should be moved to the
>> > relevant header.
>> >
>> > Now that they are getting moved to the right header file, reuse them in
>> > schedutil governor as well (that required rename of show/store
>> > routines).
>>
>> I'm not sure what the benefit is to be honest.
>>
>> It adds one level of indirection to the definition of rate_limit_us,
>> but why is that better?
>
> I agree.
>
> I did it because I am required to use these macros for the
> interactive-governor and have to move them to cpufreq.h anyway.
>
> Now that we have to move them out, I thought that we should perhaps
> use them for schedutil as well. This would look more relevant to
> schedutil once it has more tunables instead of just one.

OK, then let's defer this change until we have interactive in the tree
(which still may or may not happen).