Hi, Vincent

Just a couple of nitpicks..


On Tue, 19 Jun 2012 10:28:52 +0200, Vincent Guittot wrote:
> Add infrastructure to be able to modify the cpu_power of each core
>
> Signed-off-by: Vincent Guittot 
> <vincent.guittot-qsej5fyqhm4dnm+yrof...@public.gmane.org>
> ---
>  arch/arm/include/asm/topology.h |    2 ++
>  arch/arm/kernel/topology.c      |   38 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-
>  2 files changed, 39 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/arch/arm/include/asm/topology.h b/arch/arm/include/asm/topology.h
> index 58b8b84..78e4c85 100644
> --- a/arch/arm/include/asm/topology.h
> +++ b/arch/arm/include/asm/topology.h
> @@ -27,11 +27,13 @@ void init_cpu_topology(void);
>  void store_cpu_topology(unsigned int cpuid);
>  const struct cpumask *cpu_coregroup_mask(int cpu);
>  
> +void set_power_scale(unsigned int cpu, unsigned long power);
>  #else
>  
>  static inline void init_cpu_topology(void) { }
>  static inline void store_cpu_topology(unsigned int cpuid) { }
>  
> +static inline void set_power_scale(unsigned int cpu, unsigned long power) { }
>  #endif
>  
>  #include <asm-generic/topology.h>
> diff --git a/arch/arm/kernel/topology.c b/arch/arm/kernel/topology.c
> index 8200dea..37e2e57 100644
> --- a/arch/arm/kernel/topology.c
> +++ b/arch/arm/kernel/topology.c
> @@ -22,6 +22,37 @@
>  #include <asm/cputype.h>
>  #include <asm/topology.h>
>  
> +/*
> + * cpu power scale management
> + */
> +
> +/*
> + * cpu power table
> + * This per cpu data structure describes the relative capacity of each core.
> + * On a heteregenous system, cores don't have the same computation capacity
> + * and we reflect that difference in the cpu_power field so the scheduler can
> + * take this difference into account during load balance. A per cpu structure
> + * is preferred because each CPU updates its own cpu_power field during the
> + * load balance except for idle cores. One idle core is selected to run the
> + * rebalance_domains for all idle cores and the cpu_power can be updated
> + * during this sequence.
> + */
> +static DEFINE_PER_CPU(unsigned long, cpu_scale);
> +
> +unsigned long arch_scale_freq_power(struct sched_domain *sd, int cpu)
> +{
> +     return per_cpu(cpu_scale, cpu);
> +}
> +
> +void set_power_scale(unsigned int cpu, unsigned long power)
> +{
> +     per_cpu(cpu_scale, cpu) = power;
> +}

Isn't it a static function?


> +
> +/*
> + * cpu topology management
> + */
> +
>  #define MPIDR_SMP_BITMASK (0x3 << 30)
>  #define MPIDR_SMP_VALUE (0x2 << 30)
>  
> @@ -41,6 +72,9 @@
>  #define MPIDR_LEVEL2_MASK 0xFF
>  #define MPIDR_LEVEL2_SHIFT 16
>  
> +/*
> + * cpu topology table
> + */
>  struct cputopo_arm cpu_topology[NR_CPUS];
>  
>  const struct cpumask *cpu_coregroup_mask(int cpu)
> @@ -134,7 +168,7 @@ void init_cpu_topology(void)
>  {
>       unsigned int cpu;
>  
> -     /* init core mask */
> +     /* init core mask and power*/
>       for_each_possible_cpu(cpu) {
>               struct cputopo_arm *cpu_topo = &(cpu_topology[cpu]);
>  
> @@ -143,6 +177,8 @@ void init_cpu_topology(void)
>               cpu_topo->socket_id = -1;
>               cpumask_clear(&cpu_topo->core_sibling);
>               cpumask_clear(&cpu_topo->thread_sibling);
> +
> +             per_cpu(cpu_scale, cpu) = SCHED_POWER_SCALE;

Wouldn't it be better using:

                set_power_scale(cpu, SCHED_POWER_SCALE);
?

Thanks,
Namhyung


>       }
>       smp_wmb();
>  }



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