On Wed, 2016-10-19 at 02:53 +0200, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
> From: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wyso...@intel.com>
>
> The "IOwait boosting" mechanism is only used by the
> get_target_pstate_use_cpu_load() governor function and the
> boost_iowait flag in pid_params is always set when that function
> is in use (and it is never set otherwise). This means that the
> boost_iowait flag is in fact redundant and may be dropped.
>
> For this reason, replace the boost_iowait flag check in
> intel_pstate_update_util() with an equivalent check against
> pstate_funcs.get_target_pstate and drop that flag.
>
> Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wyso...@intel.com>
Acked-by: Srinivas Pandruvada <srinivas.pandruv...@linux.intel.com>
> ---
> drivers/cpufreq/intel_pstate.c | 7 +------
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 6 deletions(-)
>
> Index: linux-pm/drivers/cpufreq/intel_pstate.c
> ===================================================================
> --- linux-pm.orig/drivers/cpufreq/intel_pstate.c
> +++ linux-pm/drivers/cpufreq/intel_pstate.c
> @@ -233,7 +233,6 @@ static struct cpudata **all_cpu_data;
> * @p_gain_pct: PID proportional gain
> * @i_gain_pct: PID integral gain
> * @d_gain_pct: PID derivative gain
> - * @boost_iowait: Whether or not to use iowait boosting.
> *
> * Stores per CPU model static PID configuration data.
> */
> @@ -245,7 +244,6 @@ struct pstate_adjust_policy {
> int p_gain_pct;
> int d_gain_pct;
> int i_gain_pct;
> - bool boost_iowait;
> };
>
> /**
> @@ -1043,7 +1041,6 @@ static const struct cpu_defaults silverm
> .p_gain_pct = 14,
> .d_gain_pct = 0,
> .i_gain_pct = 4,
> - .boost_iowait = true,
> },
> .funcs = {
> .get_max = atom_get_max_pstate,
> @@ -1065,7 +1062,6 @@ static const struct cpu_defaults airmont
> .p_gain_pct = 14,
> .d_gain_pct = 0,
> .i_gain_pct = 4,
> - .boost_iowait = true,
> },
> .funcs = {
> .get_max = atom_get_max_pstate,
> @@ -1107,7 +1103,6 @@ static const struct cpu_defaults bxt_par
> .p_gain_pct = 14,
> .d_gain_pct = 0,
> .i_gain_pct = 4,
> - .boost_iowait = true,
> },
> .funcs = {
> .get_max = core_get_max_pstate,
> @@ -1346,7 +1341,7 @@ static void intel_pstate_update_util(str
> struct cpudata *cpu = container_of(data, struct cpudata,
> update_util);
> u64 delta_ns;
>
> - if (pid_params.boost_iowait) {
> + if (pstate_funcs.get_target_pstate ==
> get_target_pstate_use_cpu_load) {
> if (flags & SCHED_CPUFREQ_IOWAIT) {
> cpu->iowait_boost = int_tofp(1);
> } else if (cpu->iowait_boost) {
>
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