Re: [PATCH RFC 1/2] thermal/cpu idle cooling: Introduce cpu idle cooling driver

From: Rafael J. Wysocki
Date: Wed Jun 07 2017 - 17:59:18 EST


On Wed, Jun 7, 2017 at 11:50 PM, Daniel Lezcano
<daniel.lezcano@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 06, 2017 at 09:11:35AM +0530, viresh kumar wrote:
>> + Daniel
>
> Hi Viresh,
>
> thanks for the head up.
>
> Before going deeply in the review, I have a dumb question:
>
> Why isn't this mechanism implemented at the scheduler level?

I suppose for the same reason why intel_powerclamp is not implemented
like that: the scheduler maintainers don't like the idea.

Thanks,
Rafael