On Monday 20 Jan 2020 at 15:53:35 (+0100), Dietmar Eggemann wrote:
> Would be really nice if this wouldn't be required. We should really aim
> for 1 framework == 1 set of interfaces.
>
> What happens if someone calls em_get_pd() on a CPU EM?
>
> E.g:
>
> static struct perf_domain *pd_init(int cpu)
> {
> - struct em_perf_domain *obj = em_cpu_get(cpu);
> + struct device *dev = get_cpu_device(cpu);
> + struct em_perf_domain *obj = em_pd_get(dev);
> struct perf_domain *pd;
>
> Two versions of one functionality will confuse API user from the
> beginning ...
Agreed, this looks a bit confusing. It should be trivial to make
em_dev_get() (or whatever we end up calling it) work for CPUs too,
though. And we could always have a em_cpu_get(int cpu) API that is a
basically a wrapper around em_dev_get() for convenience.
Thanks,
Quentin
