[PATCH 0/3] condition EAS enablement on FI support

[Quentin Perret]

On Thursday 24 Sep 2020 at 13:39:34 (+0100), Ionela Voinescu wrote:
> Given the maturity gained by cpufreq-based Frequency Invariance (FI)
> support following the patches at [1], this series conditions Energy
> Aware Scheduling (EAS) enablement on a frequency invariant system.
> 
> Currently, EAS can be enabled on a system without FI support, leading
> to incorrect (energy-wise) task placements. As no warning is emitted,
> it could take some debugging effort to track the behavior back to the
> lack of FI support; this series changes that by disabling EAS
> (and advertising it) when FI support is missing.
> 
> The series is structured as follows:
>  - 1/3 - create function that can rebuild the scheduling and EAS'
>    performance domains if EAS' initial conditions change
>  - 2/3 - condition EAS enablement on FI support
>  - 3/3 - arm64: rebuild scheduling and performance domains in the
>          case of late, counter-driven FI initialisation.

I'm still reading through this, but shouldn't patch 2 and 3 be swapped?
Otherwise we have a weird state at patch 2 where EAS will fail to start
(IIUC), which might not be ideal for bisection.

Thoughts?

Cheers,
Quentin