Re: [PATCH 3/3] cpufreq: schedutil: remove redundant code from sugov_next_freq_shared()

From: Rafael J. Wysocki
Date: Fri Mar 03 2017 - 19:17:26 EST


On Saturday, March 04, 2017 01:03:17 AM Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
> On Thursday, March 02, 2017 02:03:22 PM Viresh Kumar wrote:
> > The same code is present both within and outside the loop and it doesn't
> > look like it provides any additional benefit.
>
> Well, not quite. This is on purpose.
>
> Note the "if (j == smp_processor_id())" condition within the loop and think
> about how the current CPU is taken into account. :-)

Ah OK, you did that, sorry.

So one idea is that if SCHED_CPUFREQ_RT_DL is set in flags, we don't even
need to start the loop which is quite a cost to simply notice that there's
nothing to do.

Also I don't quite agree with adding an extra pair of integer multiplications
to that loop just to get rid of the extra args. That aside from chasing extra
pointers, of course.

Thanks,
Rafael