Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 8 May 2020 12:37:21 +0200 | From | Greg KH <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 00/14] Modularize schedutil |
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On Fri, May 08, 2020 at 10:11:28AM +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote: > On Thu, May 07, 2020 at 07:09:58PM +0100, Quentin Perret wrote: > > One challenge to implement GKI is to avoid bloating the kernel by > > compiling too many things in, especially given that different devices > > need different things. As such, anything that can be turned into a > > module helps GKI, by offering an alternative to having that component > > built-in. This is true for pretty much anything that can be made > > modular, including drivers as well as other kernel components, such as > > CPUFreq governors. > > The idea is to move to 1 governor, schedutil. Also, I abhor all the > exports this thing does. Modules have no business touching most of that. > > Look at every EXPORT you do and wonder ask yourself how you can abuse > it. Modules are not a good thing, they're horrible pieces of crap.
Quentin, what is missing from schedutil that warrants the need for a totally different governor? Is there specific problems with the existing ones or is this just an instance of "we wrote our own a long time ago and never pushed it upstream" from various SoC companies?
thanks,
greg k-h
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