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SubjectRe: [PATCH] kernel/sched/cpufreq_schedutil: remove stale comment
On 09-05-18, 10:40, Juri Lelli wrote:
> After commit 794a56ebd9a57 ("sched/cpufreq: Change the worker kthread to
> SCHED_DEADLINE") schedutil kthreads are "ignored" for a clock frequency
> selection point of view, so the potential corner case for RT tasks is not
> possible at all now.
>
> Remove the stale comment mentioning it.
>
> Signed-off-by: Juri Lelli <juri.lelli@redhat.com>
> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
> Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
> Cc: Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@linaro.org>
> Cc: Claudio Scordino <claudio@evidence.eu.com>
> Cc: Luca Abeni <luca.abeni@santannapisa.it>
> ---
> kernel/sched/cpufreq_schedutil.c | 13 -------------
> 1 file changed, 13 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/kernel/sched/cpufreq_schedutil.c b/kernel/sched/cpufreq_schedutil.c
> index d2c6083304b4..23ef19070137 100644
> --- a/kernel/sched/cpufreq_schedutil.c
> +++ b/kernel/sched/cpufreq_schedutil.c
> @@ -396,19 +396,6 @@ static void sugov_irq_work(struct irq_work *irq_work)
>
> sg_policy = container_of(irq_work, struct sugov_policy, irq_work);
>
> - /*
> - * For RT tasks, the schedutil governor shoots the frequency to maximum.
> - * Special care must be taken to ensure that this kthread doesn't result
> - * in the same behavior.
> - *
> - * This is (mostly) guaranteed by the work_in_progress flag. The flag is
> - * updated only at the end of the sugov_work() function and before that
> - * the schedutil governor rejects all other frequency scaling requests.
> - *
> - * There is a very rare case though, where the RT thread yields right
> - * after the work_in_progress flag is cleared. The effects of that are
> - * neglected for now.
> - */
> kthread_queue_work(&sg_policy->worker, &sg_policy->work);
> }

Acked-by: Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@linaro.org>

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viresh

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