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SubjectRe: [PATCH 6/6] cpufreq: schedutil: New governor based on scheduler utilization data
On 03/03/16 17:56, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> 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.
>

Right, thanks for clarifying!

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