Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 3 Mar 2016 17:56:40 +0100 | From | Peter Zijlstra <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 6/6] cpufreq: schedutil: New governor based on scheduler utilization data |
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On Thu, Mar 03, 2016 at 04:55:44PM +0000, Juri Lelli wrote: > On 03/03/16 17:37, Peter Zijlstra wrote: > > But given the platform's cpuidle information, maybe coupled with an avg > > idle est, we can compute the benefit of race-to-idle and over provision > > based on that, right? > > > > Shouldn't this kind of considerations be a scheduler thing? I'm not > really getting why we want to put more "intelligence" in a new governor. > Also, if I understand Ingo's point correctly, I think we want to make > this kind of policy decisions inside the scheduler.
Well sure, put it in kernel/sched/cpufreq.c or wherever. My point was more that we don't have to guess/hardcode race-to-idle assumptions but can actually calculate some of that.
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