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From: Srinivas Pandruvada <srinivas.pandruvada@linux.intel.com>
To: Daniel Lezcano <daniel.lezcano@linaro.org>,
	"Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@rjwysocki.net>
Cc: Linux PM <linux-pm@vger.kernel.org>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Lukasz Luba <lukasz.luba@arm.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v1 14/16] thermal: gov_user_space: Use .trip_crossed() instead of .throttle()
Date: Wed, 24 Apr 2024 04:44:41 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <d96da934-a996-418e-a175-4ba463d3916b@linux.intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <917f9bec-80f3-4d10-9781-7b27f361101d@linaro.org>


On 4/24/24 04:34, Daniel Lezcano wrote:
> On 24/04/2024 13:32, Srinivas Pandruvada wrote:
>>
>> On 4/24/24 02:14, Daniel Lezcano wrote:
>>> On Wed, Apr 10, 2024 at 07:03:10PM +0200, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
>>>> From: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
>>>>
>>>> Notifying user space about trip points that have not been crossed is
>>>> not particuarly useful, so modity the User Space governor to use the
>>>> .trip_crossed() callback, which is only invoked for trips that have 
>>>> been
>>>> crossed, instead of .throttle() that is invoked for all trips in a
>>>> thermal zone every time the zone is updated.
>>>>
>>>> Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
>>>> ---
>>> Acked-by: Daniel Lezcano <daniel.lezcano@linaro.org>
>>>
>>> I would also consider removing this governor which is pointless now 
>>> that we
>>> have the netlink notification mechanism
>>
>> That is a good goal, But, not there yet to deprecate.
>
> What can be done to deprecate it ?
>
>

First we need to migrate all the existing usage to netlink. We need to 
add some more netlink notifications. That is relatively easy.

The problem is user space changes are much slower to push than kernel. 
Kernels changes gets deployed at faster pace in some distributions.

Thanks,

Srinivas



  reply	other threads:[~2024-04-24 11:44 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 53+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2024-04-10 15:41 [PATCH v1 00/16] thermal: core: Redesign the governor interface Rafael J. Wysocki
2024-04-10 16:04 ` [PATCH v1 02/16] thermal: gov_bang_bang: Use .trip_crossed() instead of .throttle() Rafael J. Wysocki
2024-04-19  9:34   ` Lukasz Luba
2024-04-23 17:04   ` Daniel Lezcano
2024-04-10 16:05 ` [PATCH v1 03/16] thermal: gov_bang_bang: Clean up thermal_zone_trip_update() Rafael J. Wysocki
2024-04-19  9:41   ` Lukasz Luba
2024-04-23 17:05   ` Daniel Lezcano
2024-04-10 16:06 ` [PATCH v1 04/16] thermal: gov_bang_bang: Fold thermal_zone_trip_update() into its caller Rafael J. Wysocki
2024-04-19  9:42   ` Lukasz Luba
2024-04-23 17:06   ` Daniel Lezcano
2024-04-10 16:08 ` [PATCH v1 05/16] thermal: core: Introduce .manage() callback for thermal governors Rafael J. Wysocki
2024-04-19  9:44   ` Lukasz Luba
2024-04-23 17:07   ` Daniel Lezcano
2024-04-10 16:10 ` [PATCH v1 06/16] thermal: gov_power_allocator: Use .manage() callback instead of .throttle() Rafael J. Wysocki
2024-04-19  9:50   ` Lukasz Luba
2024-04-10 16:10 ` [PATCH v1 01/16] thermal: core: Introduce .trip_crossed() callback for thermal governors Rafael J. Wysocki
2024-04-19  8:47   ` Lukasz Luba
2024-04-23 17:14   ` Daniel Lezcano
2024-04-23 17:25     ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2024-04-23 17:58       ` Daniel Lezcano
2024-04-10 16:12 ` [PATCH v1 07/16] thermal: gov_power_allocator: Eliminate a redundant variable Rafael J. Wysocki
2024-04-19  9:56   ` Lukasz Luba
2024-04-23 17:35   ` Daniel Lezcano
2024-04-23 17:54     ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2024-04-23 18:00       ` Daniel Lezcano
2024-04-23 18:05         ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2024-04-23 18:09           ` Daniel Lezcano
2024-04-10 16:13 ` [PATCH v1 08/16] thermal: gov_step_wise: Use .manage() callback instead of .throttle() Rafael J. Wysocki
2024-04-19 17:20   ` Lukasz Luba
2024-04-24  7:54   ` Daniel Lezcano
2024-04-10 16:43 ` [PATCH v1 09/16] thermal: gov_step_wise: Use trip thresholds instead of trip temperatures Rafael J. Wysocki
2024-04-19 19:11   ` Lukasz Luba
2024-04-24  7:03   ` Daniel Lezcano
2024-04-10 16:44 ` [PATCH v1 10/16] thermal: gov_step_wise: Clean up thermal_zone_trip_update() Rafael J. Wysocki
2024-04-19 18:21   ` Lukasz Luba
2024-04-10 16:57 ` [PATCH v1 11/16] thermal: gov_fair_share: Use .manage() callback instead of .throttle() Rafael J. Wysocki
2024-04-19 18:28   ` Lukasz Luba
2024-04-10 16:58 ` [PATCH v1 12/16] thermal: gov_fair_share: Use trip thresholds instead of trip temperatures Rafael J. Wysocki
2024-04-19 19:18   ` Lukasz Luba
2024-04-10 17:00 ` [PATCH v1 13/16] thermal: gov_fair_share: Eliminate unnecessary integer divisions Rafael J. Wysocki
2024-04-19 18:46   ` Lukasz Luba
2024-04-10 17:03 ` [PATCH v1 14/16] thermal: gov_user_space: Use .trip_crossed() instead of .throttle() Rafael J. Wysocki
2024-04-19 18:16   ` Lukasz Luba
2024-04-24  9:14   ` Daniel Lezcano
2024-04-24 11:32     ` Srinivas Pandruvada
2024-04-24 11:34       ` Daniel Lezcano
2024-04-24 11:44         ` Srinivas Pandruvada [this message]
2024-04-10 17:42 ` [PATCH v1 15/16] thermal: core: Drop the .throttle() governor callback Rafael J. Wysocki
2024-04-19 18:50   ` Lukasz Luba
2024-04-24  9:11   ` Daniel Lezcano
2024-04-10 17:44 ` [PATCH v1 16/16] thermal: core: Relocate critical and hot trip handling Rafael J. Wysocki
2024-04-19 18:52   ` Lukasz Luba
2024-04-24  9:17   ` Daniel Lezcano

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