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authorRafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>2016-02-18 02:26:55 +0100
committerRafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>2016-03-09 14:41:08 +0100
commita33cce1c6cc3268d8b4843bf1e4ac1e70b27d107 (patch)
treeefeb3572a7cf740e4b521ac2d68218c6b7ae79ef /drivers/cpufreq/cpufreq_governor.h
parent76c5f66aa10720a377dfe8beebd39a0b2a938965 (diff)
cpufreq: governor: Fix CPU load information updates via ->store
The ->store() callbacks of some tunable sysfs attributes of the ondemand and conservative governors trigger immediate updates of the CPU load information for all CPUs "governed" by the given dbs_data by walking the cpu_dbs_info structures for all online CPUs in the system and updating them. This is questionable for two reasons. First, it may lead to a lot of extra overhead on a system with many CPUs if the given dbs_data is only associated with a few of them. Second, if governor tunables are per-policy, the CPUs associated with the other sets of governor tunables should not be updated. To address this issue, use the observation that in all of the places in question the update operation may be carried out in the same way (because all of the tunables involved are now located in struct dbs_data and readily available to the common code) and make the code in those places invoke the same (new) helper function that will carry out the update correctly. That new function always checks the ignore_nice_load tunable value and updates the CPUs' prev_cpu_nice data fields if that's set, which wasn't done by the original code in store_io_is_busy(), but it should have been done in there too. Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com> Acked-by: Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@linaro.org>
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diff --git a/drivers/cpufreq/cpufreq_governor.h b/drivers/cpufreq/cpufreq_governor.h
index ec98065dc30d..5c7d1ea96fff 100644
--- a/drivers/cpufreq/cpufreq_governor.h
+++ b/drivers/cpufreq/cpufreq_governor.h
@@ -218,4 +218,5 @@ void od_register_powersave_bias_handler(unsigned int (*f)
void od_unregister_powersave_bias_handler(void);
ssize_t store_sampling_rate(struct dbs_data *dbs_data, const char *buf,
size_t count);
+void gov_update_cpu_data(struct dbs_governor *gov, struct dbs_data *dbs_data);
#endif /* _CPUFREQ_GOVERNOR_H */