Re: [PATCH V6] powercap/drivers/idle_injection: Add an idle injection framework

[Daniel Lezcano]

On 12/06/2018 19:35, Peter Zijlstra wrote:

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>>>> Yes, drifting is not an issue if that happens. This scheme is simpler
>>>> and safer than setting the timer ahead before waking up the tasks with
>>>> the risk it expires before all the tasks ended their idle cycles.
>>>
>>> sloppy though..
>>
>> Ok, do you prefer to see the timer set in the wakeup function and thus
>> having a periodic tick for the idle injection ?
> 
> I think having a HRTIMER_RESTART handler that does hrtimer_forward() is
> the most sensible. You will end up having to deal with threads not being
> ready, but I think that's not a real problem.

Thanks for the restartable timer suggestion. I'm finishing polishing the
code and definitively the result is much more nicer.


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