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Re: [PATCH v5 12/18] xen/cpufreq: get performance policy from governor set via xenpm
- To: "Penny, Zheng" <penny.zheng@xxxxxxx>
- From: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@xxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 4 Jul 2025 10:28:03 +0200
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- Cc: "Huang, Ray" <Ray.Huang@xxxxxxx>, "xen-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx" <xen-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Delivery-date: Fri, 04 Jul 2025 08:28:13 +0000
- List-id: Xen developer discussion <xen-devel.lists.xenproject.org>
On 04.07.2025 09:51, Penny, Zheng wrote:
> [Public]
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@xxxxxxxx>
>> Sent: Tuesday, June 17, 2025 12:22 AM
>> To: Penny, Zheng <penny.zheng@xxxxxxx>
>> Cc: Huang, Ray <Ray.Huang@xxxxxxx>; xen-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>> Subject: Re: [PATCH v5 12/18] xen/cpufreq: get performance policy from
>> governor
>> set via xenpm
>>
>> On 27.05.2025 10:48, Penny Zheng wrote:
>>> --- a/xen/drivers/acpi/pmstat.c
>>> +++ b/xen/drivers/acpi/pmstat.c
>>> @@ -319,6 +319,14 @@ static int set_cpufreq_gov(struct xen_sysctl_pm_op
>> *op)
>>> if (new_policy.governor == NULL)
>>> return -EINVAL;
>>>
>>> + new_policy.policy = cpufreq_policy_from_governor(new_policy.governor);
>>> + if ( new_policy.policy == CPUFREQ_POLICY_UNKNOWN )
>>> + {
>>> + printk("Failed to get performance policy from %s, and users
>>> + shall write epp values to deliver preference towards performance
>>> + over efficiency",
>>
>> This message is excessively long and is lacking a newline (i.e. effectively
>> two:
>> one in the middle and one at the end; yet better would be to find less
>> verbose
>> wording). What's worse, how would a "user" go about "writing epp values"?
>>
>
> Maybe change it to
> ```
> printk("Failed to get performance policy from %s, Try \"xenpm
> set-cpufreq-cppc\"\n", ...);
> ```
Looks quite a bit better, thanks.
Jan
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