Re: [PATCH] cpufreq: stats: Improve the performance of cpufreq_stats_create_table()

From: Viresh Kumar
Date: Mon Aug 21 2023 - 02:52:56 EST


On 18-08-23, 09:50, Liao Chang wrote:
> In the worst case, the freq_table of policy data is not sorted and
> contains duplicate frequencies, this means that it needs to iterate
> through the entire freq_table of policy to ensure each frequency is
> unique in the freq_table of stats data, this has a time complexity of
> O(N^2), where N is the number of frequencies in the freq_table of
> policy.
>
> However, if the policy.freq_table is already sorted and contains no
> duplicate frequencices, it can reduce the time complexity of creating
> stats.freq_table to O(N), the 'freq_table_sorted' field of policy data
> can be used to indicate whether the policy.freq_table is sorted.
>
> Signed-off-by: Liao Chang <liaochang1@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> drivers/cpufreq/cpufreq_stats.c | 3 ++-
> 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/cpufreq/cpufreq_stats.c b/drivers/cpufreq/cpufreq_stats.c
> index 55c7ffd37d1c..fcb74050711a 100644
> --- a/drivers/cpufreq/cpufreq_stats.c
> +++ b/drivers/cpufreq/cpufreq_stats.c
> @@ -243,7 +243,8 @@ void cpufreq_stats_create_table(struct cpufreq_policy *policy)
>
> /* Find valid-unique entries */
> cpufreq_for_each_valid_entry(pos, policy->freq_table)
> - if (freq_table_get_index(stats, pos->frequency) == -1)
> + if ((policy->freq_table_sorted != CPUFREQ_TABLE_UNSORTED) ||
> + (freq_table_get_index(stats, pos->frequency) == -1))
> stats->freq_table[i++] = pos->frequency;
>
> stats->state_num = i;

Acked-by: Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@xxxxxxxxxx>

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viresh