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SubjectRe: [PATCH v5 09/14] sched: Add over-utilization/tipping point indicator
On Monday 06 Aug 2018 at 12:45:44 (+0200), Vincent Guittot wrote:
> On Mon, 6 Aug 2018 at 11:43, Quentin Perret <quentin.perret@arm.com> wrote:
> I would have preferred to have a full power policy for all task when
> EAS is in used by default and then see if there is any performance
> problem instead of letting some UC unclear but that's a personal
> opinion.

Understood. I'd say let's keep things simple for now unless there is a
consensus that this is must-have form the start.

> so IMO, the minimum is to add a comment in the code that describes
> this behavior for fork tasks so people will understand why EAS puts
> newly created task on not "EAS friendly" cpus when they will look at
> the code trying to understand the behavior

Agreed, that really needs to be documented. I'll add a comment somewhere
in v6.

Thanks,
Quentin

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