Re: [PATCH v2 1/5] acpi: Store the Physical Location of Device (_PLD) information

[Rafael J. Wysocki]

On Wed, Dec 15, 2021 at 2:08 PM Heikki Krogerus
<heikki.krogerus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Hi Rafael,
>
> On Wed, Dec 15, 2021 at 12:43:48PM +0100, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
> > One overall problem I see here is that it potentially stores a bunch
> > of _PLD buffers that will never be used, which is a waste of memory.
> >
> > It may be better to make acpi_device_get_location() evaluate _PLD for
> > the target device if it cannot be found in the list and either update
> > one of the existing entries if the crc matches and return the pld data
> > from there, or add a new item to the list and return its pld data.
>
> The primary goal of this series is actually to see the other devices
> that share a fixed location with our device.

It would be good to mention that in the changelog then.

> The _PLD buffer cache
> would be nice, but not necessary. We don't have to store the _PLD
> buffer itself as part of the location structure at all if that's a
> problem.

It may be cached on the first invocation of acpi_device_get_location()
too, but I'm not sure how much overhead would be avoided by doing
that.  I guess it would make most sense in the shared _PLD case.

> I'll make the change.

OK