Re: [RFC][PATCH v3 2/2] cpufreq: schedutil: Avoid reducing frequency of busy CPUs prematurely

[Sai Gurrappadi]

On 03/23/2017 12:26 PM, Sai Gurrappadi wrote:

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> Hm, sorry I am a bit confused perhaps you could help me understand the problem/solution better :)
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> Say we have the this simple case of only a single periodic task running on one CPU, wouldn't the PELT update on wakeup cause a frequency update which updates the sg_cpu->saved_idle_calls value here? That would then cause the frequency update on idle entry to always skip dropping frequency right?
 
Apologies, this example here is flawed because on task dequeue, its utilization isn't removed. There is no problem in this case...


-Sai