Re: [RFC][PATCH 1/7] cpufreq / sched: Make schedutil access utilization data directly

[Juri Lelli]

On 02/08/16 07:28, Steve Muckle wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 02, 2016 at 11:38:17AM +0100, Juri Lelli wrote:
> > > > Anyway one way that my patch differed was that I had used the flags
> > > > field to keep the behavior the same for both RT and DL.
> > 
> > Do you mean "go to max" policy for both, until proper policies will be
> > implemented in the future?
> 
> Yep.
> 

OK, thanks for clarifying.

> > > That happens
> > > > later on in this series for RT but the DL policy is modified as above.
> > > > Can the DL policy be left as-is and discussed/modified in a separate
> > > > series?
> > 
> > Not that we want to start discussing this point now, if we postpone the
> > change for later, but I just wanted to point out a difference w.r.t.
> > what the schedfreq thing was doing: it used to sum contributions from
> > the different classes, instead of taking the max. We probably never
> > really discussed on the list what is the right thing to do, though.
> 
> Yeah I figured that was worth deferring into its own patchset/thread.
> 

Right. Makes sense to me to defer this point.

Best,

- Juri