Re: [PATCH 1/3] thermal/cpu-cooling, sched/core: Cleanup thermal pressure definition

[Valentin Schneider]

Sorry for getting back to this only now;

On 22/06/20 09:37, Vincent Guittot wrote:
> On Sun, 21 Jun 2020 at 00:28, Valentin Schneider <valentin.schneider@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>> On 20/06/20 18:49, Ionela Voinescu wrote:
>> > On Thursday 18 Jun 2020 at 17:03:24 (+0200), Vincent Guittot wrote:
>> >> Having this weak function declared in cpufreq_cooling is weird. This
>> >> means that we will have to do so for each one that wants to use it.
>> >>
>> >> Can't you declare an empty function in a common header file ?
>> >
>> > Do we expect anyone other than cpufreq_cooling to call
>> > arch_set_thermal_pressure()?
>> >
>> > I'm not against any of the options, either having it here as a week
>> > default definition (same as done for arch_set_freq_scale() in cpufreq.c)
>> > or in a common header (as done for arch_scale_freq_capacity() in sched.h).
>> >
>>
>> Same thoughts here; I was going for the arch_set_freq_scale() way.
>>
>> > But for me, Valentin's implementation seems more natural as setters are
>> > usually only called from within the framework that does the control
>> > (throttling for thermal or frequency setting for cpufreq) and we
>> > probably want to think twice if we want to call them from other places.
>> >
>>
>> Well TBH I was tempted to go the other way and keep the definition in
>> core.c, given a simple per-cpu value is fairly generic. More precisely, it
>
> Having all definitions in the same place is my main concern here.
> If topology.c defines arch_set_thermal_pressure it should also provide
> the empty function when the feature is not available or possible
> instead of relying of each user of the interface to define a weak
> function just in case.
>

include/linux/sched/topology.h already defines a stub for
arch_scale_thermal_pressure(), I suppose we could have one for
arch_set_thermal_pressure() there.

That would require having something like

#define arch_set_thermal_pressure topology_set_thermal_pressure

in the arm & arm64 include/asm/topology.h headers, with
topology_set_thermal_pressure() being what arch_set_thermal_pressure()
currently is in this patchset.


This would set an odd precedent in that so far we only ever had to #define
getter functions, the setters being either:
- entirely contained within arch_topology. (for the CPU scale)
- defined in arch_topology, declared in cpufreq and contained there (for
  the freq scale).

It made the most sense to me to follow the arch_set_freq_scale() pattern
and contain the thermal pressure setter within cpufreq_cooling, especially
since I didn't see a strong point in breaking the current patterns.