Under certain conditions (i.e. CPU entering idle and current task being the sugov thread) we can skip a frequency update. Thus, let's postpone the collection of the FAIR utilisation when really needed.
Signed-off-by: Patrick Bellasi <patrick.bell...@arm.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mi...@redhat.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <pet...@infradead.org> Cc: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wyso...@intel.com> Cc: Viresh Kumar <viresh.ku...@linaro.org> Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Cc: linux...@vger.kernel.org --- kernel/sched/cpufreq_schedutil.c | 3 +-- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/kernel/sched/cpufreq_schedutil.c b/kernel/sched/cpufreq_schedutil.c index 44bff37..c8ed645 100644 --- a/kernel/sched/cpufreq_schedutil.c +++ b/kernel/sched/cpufreq_schedutil.c @@ -296,8 +296,6 @@ static void sugov_update_shared(struct update_util_data *hook, u64 time, unsigned int next_f; bool rt_mode; - sugov_get_util(&util, &max); - raw_spin_lock(&sg_policy->update_lock); /* CPU is entering IDLE, reset flags without triggering an update */ @@ -323,6 +321,7 @@ static void sugov_update_shared(struct update_util_data *hook, u64 time, else sg_cpu->flags = flags; + sugov_get_util(&util, &max); sg_cpu->util = util; sg_cpu->max = max; -- 2.7.4