Re: [PATCH V4 0/2] cpufreq: Sort policy->freq_table

From: Rafael J. Wysocki
Date: Thu Jun 16 2016 - 20:57:12 EST


On Thu, Jun 16, 2016 at 6:17 PM, Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On 08-06-16, 02:19, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
>> On Tuesday, June 07, 2016 03:55:13 PM Viresh Kumar wrote:
>> > Hi Rafael,
>> >
>> > I have spent some more time on this stuff and finally came out with a
>> > very simple solution. I hope you will like it more than the previous
>> > versions.
>> >
>> > Instead of trying to sort the freq-table passed by the drivers, which
>> > was complicated and would have broken some drivers for sure, this patch
>> > just checks if the freq-table is sorted or not.
>> >
>> > If it is sorted, then we just use a different set of helpers for it. The
>> > table can be sorted in both ascending and descending orders now and
>> > helpers are present for both the cases.
>>
>> Well, that's something I was thinking about from the start. :-)
>>
>> > All the patches are pushed here for testing in case anyone wants to try:
>> > git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vireshk/pm.git cpufreq/sorted-freq-table
>> >
>> > V3->V4:
>> > - Written from scratch really, completely different approach.
>>
>> I'll look at the code later this week.
>
> Hi Rafael,
>
> Did you get a chance to look at these? Steve may be blocked on this :)

I know, but I have stuff to do other than cpufreq.

And in particular regression fixes take precedence, of course.