Re: [PATCH v5 03/23] PM: EM: Find first CPU active while updating OPP efficiency

[Qais Yousef]

On 12/19/23 10:53, Lukasz Luba wrote:
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> On 12/17/23 17:58, Qais Yousef wrote:
> > On 11/29/23 11:08, Lukasz Luba wrote:
> > > The Energy Model might be updated at runtime and the energy efficiency
> > > for each OPP may change. Thus, there is a need to update also the
> > > cpufreq framework and make it aligned to the new values. In order to
> > > do that, use a first active CPU from the Performance Domain. This is
> > > needed since the first CPU in the cpumask might be offline when we
> > > run this code path.
> > 
> > I didn't understand the problem here. It seems you're fixing a race, but the
> > description is not clear to me what the race is.
> 
> I have explained that in v1, v4 comments for this patch.
> When the EM is registered the fist CPU is always online. No problem
> for the old code, but for new code with runtime modification at
> later time, potentially from different subsystems - it it (e.g. thermal,
> drivers, etc). The fist CPU might be offline, but still such EM
> update for this domain shouldn'y fail. Although, when the CPU is offline
> we cannot get the valid policy...
> 
> We can get it for next cpu in the cpumask, that's what the code is
> doing.

Okay, I can see now that cpufreq_cpu_get_raw() ignores offline CPUs
intentionally.

A new variant seems better to me. But the experts know better. So LGTM.